Test 5 · ★ · Perrault, Riquet with the Tuft: the princess keeps her wor…

Wait, what did her dad say about picking a husband?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: wait, do, say, pick · To what, where: dad, husband · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 5 · ★ 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	Wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 say	ccomp
5	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 dad	nmod:poss
6	dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obj
7	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Wait	parataxis
8	about	about	SCONJ	_	9 picking	mark
9	picking	pick	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 say	advcl
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 husband	det
11	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 picking	obj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	do	past		her dad	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dad=Eventuality
3	say speech: assert	present			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	pick	gerund		a husband	vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent husband=Patient

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

She made the final call

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 made	nsubj
2	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 call	det
4	final	final	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 call	amod
5	call	call	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 made	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	past	She	the final call					vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent call=Product

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

She was her own boss

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 boss	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 boss	cop
3	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 boss	nmod:poss
4	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 boss	amod
5	boss	boss	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	She	her own boss					tree rules

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

She was her own boss, her father had said, not his

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 boss	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 boss	cop
3	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 boss	nmod:poss
4	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 boss	amod
5	boss	boss	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct
7	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 father	nmod:poss
8	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 said	nsubj
9	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 said	aux
10	said	say	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 boss	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 his	punct
12	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 his	advmod
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 said	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	She	her own boss					tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past · perfect	her father						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

Option 4

She was in charge

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 charge	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 charge	cop
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 charge	case
4	charge	charge	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	She			charge			tree rules

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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