Test 5 · ★ · Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Fisherman and His Wife, part 9: t…
Seriously, what's the fish really?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: fish · What happens: be
This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 733 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Fisherman and His Wife, part 9: the soldier wins a princess, and the fisherman's wife starts asking for more» 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 | Seriously | seriously | ADV | _ | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Seriously | punct |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 1 Seriously | parataxis |
| 4 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 what | cop |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 fish | det |
| 6 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 what | nsubj |
| 7 | really | really | ADV | _ | 3 what | advmod |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Seriously | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the fish | 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
A bewitched old wizard
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 wizard | det |
| 2 | bewitched | bewitch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 wizard | amod |
| 3 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 wizard | amod |
| 4 | wizard | wizard | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bewitch | participle | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
Option 2
A magic fish
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 fish | det |
| 2 | magic | magic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 fish | amod |
| 3 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice
A prince who had been enchanted by a witch long, long ago
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 prince | det |
| 2 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 enchanted | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 enchanted | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 enchanted | aux |
| 5 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 enchanted | aux:pass |
| 6 | enchanted | enchant | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | by | by | ADP | _ | 9 witch | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 witch | det |
| 9 | witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 enchanted | obl |
| 10 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 enchanted | xcomp |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 ago | punct |
| 12 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 13 ago | advmod |
| 13 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 6 enchanted | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | enchant | past · perfect · passive | a witch | a prince | ago, long property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus subject=Experiencer |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
An enchanted prince
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | An | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 prince | det |
| 2 | enchanted | enchant | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 prince | amod |
| 3 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | enchant | participle | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
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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