Test 9 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Nightingale: the clockwork bir…
Deadass, what did Death wear on his head?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Death · What happens: wear · To what, where: head
This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 913 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Nightingale: the clockwork bird breaks, and the real nightingale saves the dying emperor» 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 | Deadass | Deadass | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 wear | vocative |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Deadass | punct |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 6 wear | obj |
| 4 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 wear | aux |
| 5 | Death | Death | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 wear | nsubj |
| 6 | wear | wear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 head | case |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 head | nmod:poss |
| 9 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 wear | obl |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 wear | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wear | past · do-support | Death | Death's head | Deadass vocative | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent what=Theme |
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
The emperor's golden crown, which he had taken from the emperor's chamber
The tree, 14 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 emperor | det |
| 2 | emperor | emperor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 crown | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 emperor | case |
| 4 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 crown | amod |
| 5 | crown | crown | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 taken | punct |
| 7 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 taken | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 taken | nsubj |
| 9 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 taken | aux |
| 10 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 crown | acl:relcl |
| 11 | from | from | ADP | _ | 15 chamber | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 emperor | det |
| 13 | emperor | emperor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 chamber | nmod:poss |
| 14 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 13 emperor | case |
| 15 | chamber | chamber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 taken | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past · perfect · passive | the emperor's golden crown | the emperor's chamber | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: subject=Theme from chamber=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | crown | the emperor | nom crown «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
A silver helmet
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 helmet | det |
| 2 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 helmet | compound |
| 3 | helmet | helmet | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
The emperor's golden crown
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 emperor | det |
| 2 | emperor | emperor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 crown | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 emperor | case |
| 4 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 crown | amod |
| 5 | crown | crown | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | crown | the emperor | nom crown «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
Option 4
The old royal hood
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 hood | det |
| 2 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 hood | amod |
| 3 | royal | royal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 hood | amod |
| 4 | hood | hood | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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