Test 9 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Happy Family: two old snails f…
Was the queen ant a proper cool match?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be · To what, where: queen ant
This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 846 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Happy Family: two old snails find a wife for their adopted son» 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 | 4 ant | cop |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 ant | det |
| 3 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 ant | compound |
| 4 | ant | ant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 match | csubj |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 match | det |
| 6 | proper | proper | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 match | amod |
| 7 | cool | cool | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 match | amod |
| 8 | match | match | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 8 match | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the queen ant | 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
Nah, the mum said the queen's palace was far too grand for her boy to live in
The tree, 18 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 5 said | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 mum | det |
| 4 | mum | mum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | nsubj |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 queen | det |
| 7 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 palace | nmod:poss |
| 8 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 7 queen | case |
| 9 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 grand | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 grand | cop |
| 11 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 13 grand | advmod |
| 12 | too | too | ADV | _ | 13 grand | advmod |
| 13 | grand | grand | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 said | ccomp |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 boy | case |
| 15 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 boy | nmod:poss |
| 16 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 grand | obl |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 live | mark |
| 18 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 grand | advcl |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 live | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the mum | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is | past | the queen's palace | for mum's boy; far, grand property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | live in | to-infinitive | the queen's palace not said here | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
The mum said no, her palace not for him
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 mum | det |
| 2 | mum | mum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 said | nsubj |
| 3 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | no | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 7 palace | discourse |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 palace | punct |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 palace | nmod:poss |
| 7 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 said | ccomp |
| 8 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 palace | advmod |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 him | case |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 palace | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the mum | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
Option 3
Yeah, she was a good match
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 7 match | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yeah | punct |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 match | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 match | cop |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 match | det |
| 6 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 match | amod |
| 7 | match | match | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | she | a good match | tree rules |
Option 4
Yeah, she was the perfect match, but the mum refused because the palace was a hill
The tree, 16 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 7 match | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 match | punct |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 match | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 match | cop |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 match | det |
| 6 | perfect | perfect | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 match | amod |
| 7 | match | match | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 refused | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 refused | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 mum | det |
| 11 | mum | mum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 refused | nsubj |
| 12 | refused | refuse | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 match | acl:relcl |
| 13 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 18 hill | mark |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 palace | det |
| 15 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 hill | nsubj |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 hill | cop |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 hill | det |
| 18 | hill | hill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 refused | advcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | she | the perfect match | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | refuse | past | the mum | the perfect match not said here | vn reject-77.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent match=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is a | past | the palace | a hill | tree rules |
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