Test 2 · ★ · Grimm's Fairy Tales, Ashputtel: the golden slipper, the fa…
Wait, did the dove literally tell the prince the truth, or nah?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: wait, do, tell · To what, where: dove, truth, prince · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 760 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, Ashputtel: the golden slipper, the false brides and the white dove's song» 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 | _ | 3 did | punct |
| 3 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Wait | advcl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 dove | det |
| 5 | dove | dove | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 did | obj |
| 6 | literally | literally | ADV | _ | 7 tell | advmod |
| 7 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Wait | parataxis |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 prince | det |
| 9 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 tell | obj |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 truth | det |
| 11 | truth | truth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 tell | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 nah | punct |
| 13 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 14 nah | cc |
| 14 | nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 1 Wait | discourse |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Wait | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wait | imperative | you not said here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | do | past | you not said here | the dove | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dove=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | tell speech: assert | infinitive | the truth | the prince | literally property | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent prince=Recipient truth=Topic |
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
it was a lie, no cap
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 lie | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 lie | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 lie | det |
| 4 | lie | lie | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 cap | punct |
| 6 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 7 cap | det |
| 7 | cap | cap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 lie | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | it | a lie and no cap | tree rules |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
literally, no cap
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | literally | literally | ADV | _ | 4 cap | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 literally | punct |
| 3 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 4 cap | det |
| 4 | cap | cap | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice
literally, no cap, she told him the whole truth about the ring
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | literally | literally | ADV | _ | 4 cap | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 literally | punct |
| 3 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 4 cap | det |
| 4 | cap | cap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 told | advcl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 cap | punct |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 told | nsubj |
| 7 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 told | iobj |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 truth | det |
| 10 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 truth | amod |
| 11 | truth | truth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 told | obj |
| 12 | about | about | ADP | _ | 14 ring | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 ring | det |
| 14 | ring | ring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 truth | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | past | she | the whole truth | him = he | about the ring | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient truth=Topic |
Option 4
pretty much, yeah fr
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pretty | pretty | ADV | _ | 2 much | advmod |
| 2 | much | much | ADV | _ | 5 fr | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 much | punct |
| 4 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 2 much | discourse |
| 5 | fr | fr | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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