Test 3 · ★ · Fairy Tales, The Lost Princess and the Prince with the Rin…

Wait, so the stork brought a baby that speaks every language?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, stork, baby · What happens: wait, bring, speak · To what, where: baby, language · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 695 «Fairy Tales, The Lost Princess and the Prince with the Ring, part 1: the prince is saved by animals, and the eldest brother sets out» of the books course of Mova's primary school. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: the test at school.

The question

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 brought	punct
3	so	so	ADV	_	6 brought	advmod
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 stork	det
5	stork	stork	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 brought	nsubj
6	brought	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Wait	conj
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 baby	det
8	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 brought	obj
9	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 speaks	nsubj
10	speaks	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 baby	acl:relcl
11	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	12 language	det
12	language	language	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 speaks	obj
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	bring	past	the stork	a baby	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent baby=Theme
3	speak speech: other	present	a baby	every language	tree rules

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

The options

Option 1

Yup, the stork flew in from the marsh and dropped it at the palace gate

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yup	yup	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 flew	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yup	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 stork	det
4	stork	stork	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 flew	nsubj
5	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	in	in	ADV	_	5 flew	advmod
7	from	from	ADP	_	9 marsh	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 marsh	det
9	marsh	marsh	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 flew	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 dropped	cc
11	dropped	drop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 flew	conj
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 dropped	obj
13	at	at	ADP	_	16 gate	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 gate	det
15	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 gate	compound
16	gate	gate	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 dropped	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fly in	past	Yup			the marsh			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from marsh=Trajectory
2	drop	past	Yup not said here	stork		the palace gate			vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme at gate=Destination

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Yup, lowkey wild stuff

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yup	yup	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 stuff	punct
3	lowkey	lowkey	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 stuff	amod
4	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 stuff	amod
5	stuff	stuff	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Yup	appos

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Nah, the baby just cried a lot, but the king heard it speak in a dream

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 cried	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 baby	det
4	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 cried	nsubj
5	just	just	ADV	_	6 cried	advmod
6	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 lot	det
8	lot	lot	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 cried	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 heard	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 heard	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 king	det
12	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 heard	nsubj
13	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 cried	conj
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 heard	obj
15	speak	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 heard	xcomp
16	in	in	ADP	_	18 dream	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 dream	det
18	dream	dream	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 speak	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	cry speech: express	past	the baby	a lot		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lot=Topic
2	hear	past	the king	lot		tree rules
3	speak speech: other	infinitive	lot not said here		a dream	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Yup, that's wild, right

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yup	yup	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 wild	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yup	punct
3	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 wild	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 wild	cop
5	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 wild	punct
7	right	right	INTJ	_	5 wild	discourse

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Yup					wild property	tree rules

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