Test 11 · ★ · Perrault's Tales, Cinderilla; or, The Little Glass Slipper…

Did her sisters want to go to the ball, innit?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: sisters · What happens: want, go, innit · To what, where: ball

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 1084 «Perrault's Tales, Cinderilla; or, The Little Glass Slipper, part 9: Puss eats the Ogre and wins a castle, then Cinderilla is left behind» 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	Did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 her	aux
2	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 sisters	nmod:poss
3	sisters	sister	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 want	nsubj
4	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 go	mark
6	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 want	xcomp
7	to	to	ADP	_	9 ball	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 ball	det
9	ball	ball	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 go	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 innit	punct
11	innit	innit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 go	conj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 want	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	roles by
1	want	present	her sisters		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	go not said to happen	to-infinitive	her sisters not said here	the ball	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to ball=Initial_Location
3	innit	infinitive	her sisters not said here		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

Yeah, they were dead keen to go

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 keen	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 keen	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 keen	cop
5	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 keen	amod
6	keen	keen	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 go	mark
8	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 keen	acl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	they	dead keen					tree rules
2	go	to-infinitive							vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

Yeah, they were keen

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 keen	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 keen	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 keen	cop
5	keen	keen	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	they					keen property	tree rules

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, they were buzzing and bang on about it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 buzzing	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 buzzing	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 buzzing	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 buzzing	aux
5	buzzing	buzz	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 bang	cc
7	bang	bang	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 buzzing	conj
8	on	on	ADP	_	7 bang	compound:prt
9	about	about	ADP	_	10 it	case
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 bang	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	buzz	past · progressive	they						vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	bang on	present	they not said here					about it	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme about it=Location

Option 4

Yeah, they were buzzing and went shopping

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 buzzing	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 buzzing	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 buzzing	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 buzzing	aux
5	buzzing	buzz	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 went	cc
7	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 buzzing	conj
8	shopping	shopping	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 went	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	buzz	past · progressive	they						vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	go	past	they not said here	shopping					vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location shopping=Theme

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