Test 8 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Swineherd: the prince's pot, t…
what tune was the princess the only one who could play?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: tune, only one · What happens: be, play · To what, where: princess
This is test 8 · ★ 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 | what | what | DET | PronType=Int | 2 tune | det |
| 2 | tune | tune | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 princess | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 princess | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 princess | det |
| 5 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 one | det |
| 7 | only | only | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 one | amod |
| 8 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 princess | appos |
| 9 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 play | nsubj |
| 10 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 play | aux |
| 11 | play | play | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 one | acl:relcl |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 princess | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | what tune | the princess | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | play | could | the only one | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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
the jolly old tune that the pot played for everyone
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 tune | det |
| 2 | jolly | jolly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 tune | amod |
| 3 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 tune | amod |
| 4 | tune | tune | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 played | obj |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 pot | det |
| 7 | pot | pot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 played | nsubj |
| 8 | played | play | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 tune | acl:relcl |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 everyone | case |
| 10 | everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 8 played | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | play | past | the pot | the jolly old tune | for everyone | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP PP.predicate»: agent=Agent that=Theme for everyone=Eventuality |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
the jolly sow song
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 song | det |
| 2 | jolly | jolly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 song | amod |
| 3 | sow | sow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 song | compound |
| 4 | song | song | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
a silly song about a pig and a sow in the yard
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 song | det |
| 2 | silly | silly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 song | amod |
| 3 | song | song | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | about | about | ADP | _ | 6 pig | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 pig | det |
| 6 | pig | pig | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 song | nmod |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 sow | cc |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 sow | det |
| 9 | sow | sow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 song | conj |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 yard | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 yard | det |
| 12 | yard | yard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 sow | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
the royal anthem
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 anthem | det |
| 2 | royal | royal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 anthem | amod |
| 3 | anthem | anthem | NOUN | Number=Sing | 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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