Test 11 · ★ · Perrault, Riquet with the Tuft: the princess keeps her wor…

Yo, what did she say she wasn't ready to do?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: she · What happens: say, not be, do · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 1087 «Perrault, Riquet with the Tuft: the princess keeps her word and marries the prince» 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	_	6 say	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yo	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 say	obj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 say	aux
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 say	nsubj
6	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 ready	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 ready	cop
9	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 ready	advmod
10	ready	ready	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 say	ccomp
11	to	to	PART	_	12 do	mark
12	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 ready	xcomp
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 say	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past · do-support	she		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic
2	not is	past	she	ready property	tree rules
3	do	to-infinitive	she not said here		vn act-114-1 «NP V»: 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

Decide on Riquet and tell her father the news

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Decide	decide	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	on	on	ADP	_	3 Riquet	case
3	Riquet	riquet	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Decide	obl
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 tell	cc
5	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Decide	conj
6	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 father	nmod:poss
7	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 tell	iobj
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 news	det
9	news	news	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 tell	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	decide	imperative	you not said here					on Riquet	vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V PP.theme S»: agent=Agent on riquet=Topic
2	tell speech: assert	infinitive	you not said here	the news	her father				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent father=Recipient news=Topic

Option 2

Accept her father

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Accept	accept	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 father	nmod:poss
3	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Accept	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	accept	imperative	you not said here	her father					vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent father=Theme

Option 3

Marry him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Marry	marry	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Marry	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	marry	imperative	you not said here	him = he					vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Decide on Riquet

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Decide	decide	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	on	on	ADP	_	3 Riquet	case
3	Riquet	riquet	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Decide	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	decide	imperative	you not said here					on Riquet	vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V PP.theme S»: agent=Agent on riquet=Topic

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