Test 18 · ★★ · Just So Stories, The Butterfly that Stamped, part 2: the B…
★★★ Careful: «All the Queens except Balkis fell flat on their faces.» Who did NOT fall down?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: ★ · What happens: fall, not fall down · To what, where: faces
This is test 18 · ★★ of lesson 97 «Just So Stories, The Butterfly that Stamped, part 2: the Butterfly stamps, Balkis is wise, and the book ends» 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
Sentence 1: ★★★ Careful: «All the Queens except Balkis fell flat on their faces.»
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ★ | ★ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 fell | nsubj |
| 2 | ★ | ★ | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 ★ | dep |
| 3 | ★ | ★ | ADP | _ | 4 Careful | case |
| 4 | Careful | careful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 ★ | nmod |
| 5 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 12 fell | punct |
| 6 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 12 fell | punct |
| 7 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 9 Queens | det:predet |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Queens | det |
| 9 | Queens | queen | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 fell | nsubj |
| 10 | except | except | ADP | _ | 11 Balkis | case |
| 11 | Balkis | Balkis | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Queens | nmod |
| 12 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | flat | flat | ADV | _ | 12 fell | advmod |
| 14 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 faces | case |
| 15 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 faces | nmod:poss |
| 16 | faces | face | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 fell | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 fell | punct |
| 18 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 12 fell | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fall in a quote | past | ★ ★ Careful | Queens's faces | flat property | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on face=Location |
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.
Sentence 2: Who did NOT fall down?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 fall | nsubj |
| 2 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 fall | aux |
| 3 | NOT | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 fall | advmod |
| 4 | fall | fall | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | down | down | ADP | _ | 4 fall | compound:prt |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 fall | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not fall down | past · do-support | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
The options
Option 1
Suli
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Suli | Suli | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Egyptian
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Egyptian | Egyptian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Balkis
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Balkis | Balkis | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
One
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.
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