Test 13 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Flying Trunk, part 1: a burnt…
Was the nurse's castle thing a proper secret, bruv?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be · To what, where: castle thing
This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 828 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Flying Trunk, part 1: a burnt paper's last words, then a ruined son flies off in a magic trunk» 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 | 6 thing | cop |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 nurse | det |
| 3 | nurse | nurse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 thing | nmod:poss |
| 4 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 3 nurse | case |
| 5 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 thing | compound |
| 6 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 secret | det |
| 8 | proper | proper | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 secret | amod |
| 9 | secret | secret | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 thing | appos |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 bruv | punct |
| 11 | bruv | bruv | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 secret | conj |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 thing | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the nurse's castle thing | 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
Yeah, it was prophesied she'd be unhappy over a lover, and the king was dead worried.
The tree, 17 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 5 prophesied | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 prophesied | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 prophesied | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 prophesied | aux:pass |
| 5 | prophesied | prophesy | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 unhappy | nsubj |
| 7 | 'd | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 unhappy | aux |
| 8 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 9 unhappy | cop |
| 9 | unhappy | unhappy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 prophesied | ccomp |
| 10 | over | over | ADP | _ | 12 lover | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 lover | det |
| 12 | lover | lover | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 unhappy | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 worried | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 worried | cc |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 king | det |
| 16 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 worried | nsubj |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 worried | cop |
| 18 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 worried | amod |
| 19 | worried | worried | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 prophesied | parataxis |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 prophesied | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | prophesy | past · passive | it | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 2 | is | would | she | a lover | unhappy property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | is | past | the king | worried property | tree rules |
Option 2
Yeah, it was prophesied she'd be unhappy over a lover, bruv, so no one could visit
The tree, 17 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 5 prophesied | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 prophesied | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 prophesied | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 prophesied | aux:pass |
| 5 | prophesied | prophesy | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 unhappy | nsubj |
| 7 | 'd | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 unhappy | aux |
| 8 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 9 unhappy | cop |
| 9 | unhappy | unhappy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 prophesied | ccomp |
| 10 | over | over | ADP | _ | 12 lover | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 lover | det |
| 12 | lover | lover | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 unhappy | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 bruv | punct |
| 14 | bruv | bruv | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 lover | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 visit | punct |
| 16 | so | so | ADV | _ | 20 visit | advmod |
| 17 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 18 one | det |
| 18 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 visit | nsubj |
| 19 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 visit | aux |
| 20 | visit | visit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 prophesied | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | prophesy | past · passive | it | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 2 | is | would | she | a lover and bruv | unhappy property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | visit | could | no one | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Yeah, it was prophesied she'd be unhappy
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 5 prophesied | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 prophesied | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 prophesied | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 prophesied | aux:pass |
| 5 | prophesied | prophesy | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 unhappy | nsubj |
| 7 | 'd | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 unhappy | aux |
| 8 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 9 unhappy | cop |
| 9 | unhappy | unhappy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 prophesied | ccomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | prophesy | past · passive | it | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 2 | is | would | she | unhappy property | tree rules |
Option 4
Nah, it was just the nurse being daft
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 7 nurse | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 nurse | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 nurse | cop |
| 5 | just | just | ADV | _ | 7 nurse | advmod |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 nurse | det |
| 7 | nurse | nurse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 daft | nsubj |
| 8 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 daft | cop |
| 9 | daft | daft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | it | the nurse | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | gerund | the nurse | daft property | tree rules |
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