Test 5 · ★★★ · Half- and step-siblings
In a fairy tale the stepsisters are always cruel. What does Mila's skateboarding show?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: stepsisters, Mila · What happens: be, do, show · To what, where: fairy tale, skateboarding show
This is test 5 · ★★★ of lesson 505 «Half- and step-siblings» of the everyday 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: In a fairy tale the stepsisters are always cruel.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | In | in | ADP | _ | 4 tale | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 tale | det |
| 3 | fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 tale | compound |
| 4 | tale | tale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 cruel | obl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 stepsisters | det |
| 6 | stepsisters | stepsister | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 cruel | nsubj |
| 7 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 cruel | cop |
| 8 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 9 cruel | advmod |
| 9 | cruel | cruel | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 cruel | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the stepsisters | a fairy tale | always, cruel 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.
Sentence 2: What does Mila's skateboarding show?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 2 does | nsubj |
| 2 | does | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | Mila | Mila | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 show | nmod:poss |
| 4 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 3 Mila | case |
| 5 | skateboarding | skateboarding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 show | compound |
| 6 | show | show | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 does | obj |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 does | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | present | Mila's skateboarding show | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent show=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | show | Mila | nom show «act transitive»: poss=agent |
The options
Option 1
Only real sisters are kind
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Only | only | ADV | _ | 3 sisters | advmod |
| 2 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 sisters | amod |
| 3 | sisters | sister | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 kind | nsubj |
| 4 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 kind | cop |
| 5 | kind | kind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | real sisters | kind property | tree rules |
Option 2
Fairy tales are always true to life
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 tales | compound |
| 2 | tales | tale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 true | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 true | cop |
| 4 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 5 true | advmod |
| 5 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 life | case |
| 7 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 true | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Fairy tales | to life; always, true property | tree rules |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Step-siblings can become close
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Step | step | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 siblings | compound |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 1 Step | punct |
| 3 | siblings | sibling | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 become | nsubj |
| 4 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 become | aux |
| 5 | become | become | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | close | close | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 become | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | become | can | Step siblings | close property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
Option 4
Stepsisters must be mean
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Stepsisters | stepsister | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 mean | nsubj |
| 2 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 mean | aux |
| 3 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 4 mean | cop |
| 4 | mean | mean | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | must | Stepsisters | mean property | tree rules |
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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