Test 8 · ★ · Grimm's Fairy Tales, Ashputtel: the golden slipper, the fa…
Yo, is the white snake thing about the king being a genius or a creep?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: king · What happens: be · To what, where: white snake thing
This is test 8 · ★ 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 | Yo | yo | INTJ | _ | 7 thing | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yo | punct |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 thing | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 thing | det |
| 5 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 thing | amod |
| 6 | snake | snake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 thing | compound |
| 7 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | about | about | ADP | _ | 13 genius | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 king | det |
| 10 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 genius | nsubj |
| 11 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 genius | cop |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 genius | det |
| 13 | genius | genius | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 thing | nmod |
| 14 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 16 creep | cc |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 creep | det |
| 16 | creep | creep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 genius | conj |
| 17 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 thing | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the white snake thing | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | is | gerund | the king | about a genius or a creep | 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 · ← Mova's choice
the king is a genius, bro, but also kinda a creep for the snake thing
The tree, 15 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 king | det |
| 2 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 genius | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 genius | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 genius | det |
| 5 | genius | genius | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 bro | punct |
| 7 | bro | bro | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 genius | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 creep | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 creep | cc |
| 10 | also | also | ADV | _ | 11 kinda | advmod |
| 11 | kinda | kinda | ADV | _ | 13 creep | advmod |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 creep | det |
| 13 | creep | creep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 genius | conj |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 thing | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 thing | det |
| 16 | snake | snake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 thing | compound |
| 17 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 creep | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the king | a genius and bro but a creep for the snake thing | tree rules |
Option 2
the king is a genius, bro, fr
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 king | det |
| 2 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 genius | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 genius | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 genius | det |
| 5 | genius | genius | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 bro | punct |
| 7 | bro | bro | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 genius | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 fr | punct |
| 9 | fr | fr | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 genius | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the king | a genius and bro and fr | tree rules |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
the servant ate the snake, bro
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 servant | det |
| 2 | servant | servant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 ate | nsubj |
| 3 | ate | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 snake | det |
| 5 | snake | snake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 ate | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 bro | punct |
| 7 | bro | bro | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 snake | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | eat | past | the servant | the snake and bro | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent snake=Patient |
Option 4
he's a genius who made the servant eat a snake, bro, which is wild
The tree, 15 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 genius | nsubj |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 genius | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 genius | det |
| 4 | genius | genius | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 made | nsubj |
| 6 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 genius | acl:relcl |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 servant | det |
| 8 | servant | servant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 made | obj |
| 9 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 made | xcomp |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 snake | det |
| 11 | snake | snake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 eat | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 bro | punct |
| 13 | bro | bro | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 genius | parataxis |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 wild | punct |
| 15 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 wild | nsubj |
| 16 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 wild | cop |
| 17 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 bro | acl:relcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | he | a genius | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | make | past | a genius | the servant | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | eat | infinitive | the servant not said here | a snake | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent snake=Patient | ||||
| 4 | is | present | bro | wild property | tree rules |
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