Test 13 · ★ · Perrault's Tales, Cinderilla; or, The Little Glass Slipper…

Did the sisters manage to get into the ball, though?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: sisters · What happens: manage, get · To what, where: ball

This is test 13 · ★ 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	3 sisters	aux
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 sisters	det
3	sisters	sister	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 manage	nsubj
4	manage	manage	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 get	mark
6	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 manage	xcomp
7	into	into	ADP	_	9 ball	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 ball	det
9	ball	ball	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 get	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 though	punct
11	though	though	SCONJ	_	4 manage	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 manage	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	manage	present	the sisters						vn succeed-74-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	get	to-infinitive	the sisters not said here			the ball			vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into ball=Destination

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 got in dead quick

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 got	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 got	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 got	nsubj
4	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 quick	case
6	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 quick	amod
7	quick	quick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 got	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	past	they			dead quick			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Nah, the sisters got stuck out

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 stuck	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 sisters	det
4	sisters	sister	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 stuck	nsubj:pass
5	got	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 stuck	aux:pass
6	stuck	stick	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	out	out	ADP	_	6 stuck	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stick out	past · passive		the sisters					vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.destination»: subject=Destination

Option 3

Nah, they got stuck at the door, innit

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 stuck	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 stuck	nsubj
4	got	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 stuck	aux:pass
5	stuck	stuck	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	at	at	ADP	_	8 door	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 door	det
8	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 stuck	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 innit	punct
10	innit	innit	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	5 stuck	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	innit	infinitive							tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Hold up, that's the next part, innit

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hold	hold	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	up	up	ADP	_	1 Hold	compound:prt
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 part	punct
4	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	8 part	nsubj
5	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 part	cop
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 part	det
7	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 part	amod
8	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Hold	parataxis
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 innit	punct
10	innit	innit	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 part	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hold up	imperative	you not said here						vn support-15.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot
2	is a	present	that	the next part and innit					tree rules

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