Test 5 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Swineherd: the prince's pot, t…

was the princess salty about the rose?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: princess · What happens: be

This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 997 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Swineherd: the prince's pot, the rattle and the kisses» 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 salty	cop
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 princess	det
3	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 salty	nsubj
4	salty	salty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	about	about	ADP	_	7 rose	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 rose	det
7	rose	rose	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 salty	obl
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 salty	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the princess					about the rose; salty property	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

she said it was fake

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 said	nsubj
2	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 fake	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 fake	cop
5	fake	fake	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 said	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	she						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	it					fake property	tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

she said it was natural

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 said	nsubj
2	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 natural	expl
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 natural	cop
5	natural	natural	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 said	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	she						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is	past						natural property	tree rules

Option 3

she said the rose was natural and the prince was not

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 said	nsubj
2	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 rose	det
4	rose	rose	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 natural	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 natural	cop
6	natural	natural	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 said	ccomp
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 prince	cc
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 prince	det
9	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 natural	conj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 natural	cop
11	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 was	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	she						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	the rose					natural property	tree rules

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

she called it too bright

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 called	nsubj
2	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 called	obj
4	too	too	ADV	_	5 bright	advmod
5	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 called	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	call	past	she	it				bright property	vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Recipient

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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