Test 9 · ★ · Italian Popular Tales, Count Piro: the fox wins a rich bri…
So the princess was mint, right, she liked the fox a lot?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: princess · What happens: be, like · To what, where: fox
This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 702 «Italian Popular Tales, Count Piro: the fox wins a rich bride and tests his master's gratitude» 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 5 mint | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 princess | det |
| 3 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 mint | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 mint | cop |
| 5 | mint | mint | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 mint | punct |
| 7 | right | right | INTJ | _ | 5 mint | discourse |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 liked | punct |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 liked | nsubj |
| 10 | liked | like | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 mint | advcl:relcl |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 fox | det |
| 12 | fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 liked | obj |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 lot | det |
| 14 | lot | lot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 liked | obl:unmarked |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 mint | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the princess | mint property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | like | past | princess | the fox | a lot obl:unmarked | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot fox=Theme |
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
Yeah, she fancied him a fair bit, innit
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 fancied | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 fancied | punct |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 fancied | nsubj |
| 4 | fancied | fancy | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 fancied | obj |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 bit | det |
| 7 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 bit | amod |
| 8 | bit | bit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 fancied | obl:unmarked |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 innit | punct |
| 10 | innit | innit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 bit | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fancy | past | she | him = he | a fair bit and innit obl:unmarked | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus |
Option 2
Nah, she thought he was a bit dodgy
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 4 thought | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 thought | nsubj |
| 4 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 dodgy | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 dodgy | cop |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 bit | det |
| 8 | bit | bit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 dodgy | obl:unmarked |
| 9 | dodgy | dodgy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 thought | ccomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past | she | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is | past | he | a bit obl:unmarked; dodgy property | tree rules |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Yeah, she had a massive soft spot for him
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 had | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 had | punct |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 had | nsubj |
| 4 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 spot | det |
| 6 | massive | massive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 spot | amod |
| 7 | soft | soft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 spot | amod |
| 8 | spot | spot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 had | obj |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 him | case |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 spot | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | she | a massive soft spot | for him = he | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spot=Patient |
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice
Yeah, she had a massive soft spot for him and wanted to marry the fox instead of the Count
The tree, 19 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 had | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 had | punct |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 had | nsubj |
| 4 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 spot | det |
| 6 | massive | massive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 spot | amod |
| 7 | soft | soft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 spot | amod |
| 8 | spot | spot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 had | obj |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 him | case |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 spot | nmod |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 wanted | cc |
| 12 | wanted | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 had | conj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 marry | mark |
| 14 | marry | marry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 wanted | xcomp |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 fox | det |
| 16 | fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 marry | obj |
| 17 | instead | instead | ADV | ExtPos=ADP | 20 Count | case |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 instead | fixed |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Count | det |
| 20 | Count | count | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 marry | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | she | a massive soft spot | for him = he | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spot=Patient | |||
| 2 | want | past | she not said here | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | marry not said to happen | to-infinitive | she not said here | the fox | instead the Count | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fox=Patient |
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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