Test 7 · ★ · Perrault's Tales, Riquet with the Tuft, part 11: the two p…

did she say yes straight off or what

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: she · What happens: say · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 7 · ★ 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	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 say	aux
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 say	nsubj
3	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 off	discourse
5	straight	straight	ADV	_	6 off	advmod
6	off	off	ADV	_	3 say	ccomp
7	or	or	CCONJ	_	8 what	cc
8	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 off	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past · do-support	she						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

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

nah, she was quiet, then said yes later

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 quiet	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 quiet	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 quiet	cop
5	quiet	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct
7	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 said	advmod
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 quiet	conj
9	yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	10 later	discourse
10	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	8 said	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	she					quiet property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	she not said here				then	late property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

Option 2

nah, she was well quiet, then said yes after a year of thinking it over

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 quiet	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 quiet	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 quiet	cop
5	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 quiet	advmod
6	quiet	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct
8	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	9 said	advmod
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 quiet	conj
10	yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	9 said	obj
11	after	after	ADP	_	13 year	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 year	det
13	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 said	obl
14	of	of	SCONJ	_	15 thinking	mark
15	thinking	think	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	13 year	acl
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 thinking	obj
17	over	over	ADP	_	15 thinking	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	she			quiet, well property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	she not said here		then; year		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent yes=Topic
3	think over speech: other	gerund	a year not said here	it			vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot it=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

nah, she was well quiet, then said yes after a year

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 quiet	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 quiet	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 quiet	cop
5	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 quiet	advmod
6	quiet	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct
8	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	9 said	advmod
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 quiet	conj
10	yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	9 said	obj
11	after	after	ADP	_	13 year	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 year	det
13	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 said	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	she					quiet, well property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	she not said here				then; year		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent yes=Topic

Option 4

yeah, she was quick, then said yes right away

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 quick	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 quick	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 quick	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 quick	cop
5	quick	quick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct
7	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 said	advmod
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 quick	parataxis
9	yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	8 said	obj
10	right	right	ADV	_	11 away	advmod
11	away	away	ADV	_	8 said	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	she					quick property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past					then	away property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent yes=Topic

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