Test 8 · ★ · Violet Fairy Book, Sigurd and Lineik, part 38: the childre…

Bruv, why was the prince let down at first?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: prince · What happens: be, let down · To what, where: Bruv

This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 698 «Violet Fairy Book, Sigurd and Lineik, part 38: the children flee to the grove, and the prince is deceived» 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	Bruv	Bruv	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 let	obl:unmarked
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Bruv	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	7 let	advmod
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 why	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 prince	det
6	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 let	nsubj
7	let	let	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	down	down	ADP	_	7 let	compound:prt
9	at	at	ADP	_	10 first	case
10	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	7 let	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 let	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past						why property	tree rules
2	let down	past	the prince	Bruv					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent at first=Asset

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 · ← Mova's choice

she looked too plain

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 looked	nsubj
2	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	too	too	ADV	_	4 plain	advmod
4	plain	plain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 looked	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	past	she					plain property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

Option 2

she was not pretty

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 was	nsubj
2	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 pretty	advmod
4	pretty	pretty	ADV	_	2 was	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	past	she					pretty property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

she seemed a poor match for his royal family

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 seemed	nsubj
2	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 match	det
4	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 match	amod
5	match	match	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 seemed	obj
6	for	for	ADP	_	9 family	case
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 family	nmod:poss
8	royal	royal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 family	amod
9	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 seemed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	seem	past	she	a poor match				for his royal family	vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme match=Attribute

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

she was not that special

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 special	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 special	cop
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 special	advmod
4	that	that	ADV	_	5 special	advmod
5	special	special	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is	past	she					special, that property	tree rules

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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