Test 8 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shadow: the shadow wins the pr…
nah real talk, what was the watering-place for the princess?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · What happens: be · To what, where: watering place
This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 973 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shadow: the shadow wins the princess, the learned man is executed» 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 | nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 3 talk | discourse |
| 2 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 talk | amod |
| 3 | talk | talk | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 place | punct |
| 5 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 10 place | dep |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 place | cop |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 place | det |
| 8 | watering | watering | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 place | compound |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 watering | punct |
| 10 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 talk | appos |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 princess | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 princess | det |
| 13 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 place | nmod |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 talk | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the watering place | for the princess | 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
A healing well
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 healing | det |
| 2 | healing | healing | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 2 healing | advmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
A spa where she felt cured
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 spa | det |
| 2 | spa | spa | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 5 felt | advmod |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 felt | nsubj |
| 5 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 spa | acl:relcl |
| 6 | cured | cure | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 felt | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feel | past | she | vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | cure | participle | she not said here | vn free-10.6.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer |
Option 3
A spring where she got better
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 spring | det |
| 2 | spring | spring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 got | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 5 got | advmod |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 got | nsubj |
| 5 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 5 got | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | she | spring | good property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
Option 4
A garden where she met a man
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 garden | det |
| 2 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 met | nsubj |
| 3 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 5 met | advmod |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 met | nsubj |
| 5 | met | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 man | det |
| 7 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 met | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | meet | past | a garden | a man | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Co-Agent |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/973-pg27200-part184/t8/