Test 11 · ★ · Perrault's Tales, Cinderilla, part 10: a coachman, footmen…

Yo, why did the godmother say leave before midnight?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: godmother · What happens: do, say, leave · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 1085 «Perrault's Tales, Cinderilla, part 10: a coachman, footmen and a slipper that fits» 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	Yo	yo	INTJ	_	4 did	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yo	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 did	advmod
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 godmother	det
6	godmother	godmother	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 say	nsubj
7	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 did	parataxis
8	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 say	ccomp
9	before	before	ADP	_	10 midnight	case
10	midnight	midnight	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 leave	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	roles by
1	do	past			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert	present	the godmother		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	leave	infinitive		midnight	vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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

or everything turns back to rags and rats at once

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	or	or	CCONJ	_	3 turns	cc
2	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	3 turns	nsubj
3	turns	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	back	back	ADV	_	3 turns	advmod
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 rags	case
6	rags	rag	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 turns	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 rats	cc
8	rats	rat	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 rags	conj
9	at	at	ADP	_	10 once	case
10	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	3 turns	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn back	present	everything			rags and rats			vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to rag=Destination

Option 2

or the spell will break at once

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	or	or	CCONJ	_	5 break	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 spell	det
3	spell	spell	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 break	nsubj
4	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 break	aux
5	break	break	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 once	case
7	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	5 break	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	break	future	the spell						vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at once=Location

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

or everything she owns turns back into rags and rats and mice

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	or	or	CCONJ	_	5 turns	cc
2	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	5 turns	nsubj
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 owns	nsubj
4	owns	own	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 everything	acl:relcl
5	turns	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	back	back	ADV	_	5 turns	advmod
7	into	into	ADP	_	8 rags	case
8	rags	rag	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 turns	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 rats	cc
10	rats	rat	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 rags	conj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 mice	cc
12	mice	mouse	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 rags	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	own	present	she						vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot
2	turn back	present	everything			rags and rats and mice			vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

or everything turns back to rags and rats

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	or	or	CCONJ	_	3 turns	cc
2	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	3 turns	nsubj
3	turns	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	back	back	ADV	_	3 turns	advmod
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 rags	case
6	rags	rag	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 turns	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 rats	cc
8	rats	rat	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 rags	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn back	present	everything			rags and rats			vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to rag=Destination

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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