Test 10 · ★ · Perrault's Tales, Riquet with the Tuft, part 11: the two p…

so the eldest kept spilling her water on her clothes, proper messy

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: eldest · What happens: keep, spill · To what, where: water, clothes

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1086 «Perrault's Tales, Riquet with the Tuft, part 11: the two princesses and Riquet's bargain» 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	so	so	ADV	_	4 kept	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 eldest	det
3	eldest	eld	ADJ	Degree=Sup	4 kept	nsubj
4	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	spilling	spill	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 kept	xcomp
6	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 water	nmod:poss
7	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 spilling	obj
8	on	on	ADP	_	10 clothes	case
9	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 clothes	nmod:poss
10	clothes	clothes	NOUN	Number=Ptan	5 spilling	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 kept	punct
12	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 messy	amod
13	messy	messy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 kept	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	past	the eldest						tree rules
2	spill	gerund	the eldest not said here	her water		her clothes			vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location water=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 · ← Mova's choice

yeah, she couldn't keep a glass steady to save her life, and the maids were fed up

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 keep	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yeah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 keep	nsubj
4	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 keep	aux
5	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 keep	advmod
6	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 glass	det
8	glass	glass	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 keep	obj
9	steady	steady	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 keep	xcomp
10	to	to	PART	_	11 save	mark
11	save	save	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 steady	advcl
12	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 life	nmod:poss
13	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 save	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 fed	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 fed	cc
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 maids	det
17	maids	maid	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 fed	nsubj:pass
18	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 fed	aux:pass
19	fed	feed	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 keep	conj
20	up	up	ADP	_	19 fed	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not keep	could	she	a glass	steady property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent glass=Theme
2	save	to-infinitive	she not said here	her life		vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Theme
3	feed up	past · passive		the maids		vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: subject=Recipient

Option 2

yeah, she couldn't hold a cup steady, mate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 hold	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yeah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 hold	nsubj
4	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 hold	aux
5	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 hold	advmod
6	hold	hold	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 cup	det
8	cup	cup	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 hold	obj
9	steady	steady	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 hold	xcomp
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 mate	punct
11	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 hold	vocative

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not hold	could	she	a cup				mate vocative; steady property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cup=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

yeah, she couldn't keep a glass steady to save her life

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 keep	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yeah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 keep	nsubj
4	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 keep	aux
5	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 keep	advmod
6	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 glass	det
8	glass	glass	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 keep	obj
9	steady	steady	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 keep	xcomp
10	to	to	PART	_	11 save	mark
11	save	save	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 keep	advcl
12	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 life	nmod:poss
13	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 save	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not keep	could	she	a glass				steady property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent glass=Theme
2	save	to-infinitive	she not said here	her life					vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Theme

Option 4

nah, she could keep a glass steady, mate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 keep	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 keep	nsubj
4	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 keep	aux
5	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 glass	det
7	glass	glass	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 keep	obj
8	steady	steady	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 keep	xcomp
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 mate	punct
10	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 keep	vocative

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	could	she	a glass				mate vocative; steady property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent glass=Theme

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