Test 12 · ★ · Blue Fairy Book, Prince Omar: the ivory box test shows who…
was the queen fibbing when she said she maybe made a mistake?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: queen, she · What happens: be, fib, say, make · To what, where: queen, mistake · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 718 «Blue Fairy Book, Prince Omar: the ivory box test shows who is the true prince» 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 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 queen | cop |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 queen | det |
| 3 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | fibbing | fib | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 queen | acl |
| 5 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 said | advmod |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 said | nsubj |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 fibbing | advcl |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 made | nsubj |
| 9 | maybe | maybe | ADV | _ | 10 made | advmod |
| 10 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 said | ccomp |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 mistake | det |
| 12 | mistake | mistake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 made | obj |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 queen | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the queen | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | fib | gerund | the queen not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | she | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | make | past | she | a mistake | maybe property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mistake=Product |
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
Yeah, she was lying to him
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 5 lying | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yeah | punct |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 lying | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 lying | aux |
| 5 | lying | lie | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 him | case |
| 7 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 lying | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lie | past · progressive | she | him = he | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 2
Nah, she was truly sorry
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 6 sorry | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 sorry | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 sorry | cop |
| 5 | truly | truly | ADV | _ | 6 sorry | advmod |
| 6 | sorry | sorry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | she | sorry, truly property | tree rules |
Option 3
Not really
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 2 really | advmod |
| 2 | really | really | ADV | _ | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Yeah, she was playing him
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 5 playing | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 playing | punct |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 playing | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 playing | aux |
| 5 | playing | play | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 playing | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | play | past · progressive | she | him = he | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
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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