Test 9 · ★ · Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Blue Light, part 47: the soldier'…
ok so the queen wished her kid was a raven, mad right?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: queen, kid · What happens: wish, be · To what, where: raven · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 771 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Blue Light, part 47: the soldier's pipe calls the manikin, and a queen's child becomes a raven» 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 | ok | ok | INTJ | _ | 5 wished | discourse |
| 2 | so | so | SCONJ | _ | 5 wished | mark |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 queen | det |
| 4 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 wished | nsubj |
| 5 | wished | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 kid | nmod:poss |
| 7 | kid | kid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 raven | nsubj |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 raven | cop |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 raven | det |
| 10 | raven | raven | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 wished | ccomp |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 right | punct |
| 12 | mad | mad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 right | amod |
| 13 | right | right | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 raven | conj |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 wished | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wish | past | the queen | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 2 | is a | past | queen's kid | a raven and mad right | 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
yeah, it flapped away fast
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 flapped | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 flapped | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 flapped | nsubj |
| 4 | flapped | flap | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | away | away | ADV | _ | 4 flapped | advmod |
| 6 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 flapped | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | flap away | past | it | away, fast property | vn body_internal_motion-49.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
yeah, bro, poof, it flew off to the dark wood and never came back
The tree, 14 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 3 bro | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 bro | punct |
| 3 | bro | bro | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 flew | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 poof | punct |
| 5 | poof | poof | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 bro | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 bro | punct |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 flew | nsubj |
| 8 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | off | off | ADP | _ | 8 flew | compound:prt |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 wood | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 wood | det |
| 12 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 wood | amod |
| 13 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 flew | obl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 came | cc |
| 15 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 16 came | advmod |
| 16 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 flew | conj |
| 17 | back | back | ADV | _ | 16 came | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fly off | past | bro and poof | to the dark wood result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to wood=Result | ||||
| 2 | not come back | past | bro and poof not said here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
yeah, bro, poof, it flew off
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 3 bro | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 bro | punct |
| 3 | bro | bro | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 flew | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 poof | punct |
| 5 | poof | poof | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 bro | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 bro | punct |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 flew | nsubj |
| 8 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | off | off | ADP | _ | 8 flew | compound:prt |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fly off | past | bro and poof | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 4
nah, it just sat there
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 5 sat | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 nah | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 sat | nsubj |
| 4 | just | just | ADV | _ | 5 sat | advmod |
| 5 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 sat | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit | past | it | there | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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