Test 3 · ★ · Fairy Tales, Donkeyskin, part 1: a dying Queen makes the K…

So did Fanny want to be a Queen, or nah?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Fanny · What happens: want, be · To what, where: Queen

This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 1091 «Fairy Tales, Donkeyskin, part 1: a dying Queen makes the King swear, the King goes mad, and the Princess flees to her godmother» 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 want	advmod
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 want	aux
3	Fanny	Fanny	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 want	nsubj
4	want	want	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	8 Queen	mark
6	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	8 Queen	cop
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 Queen	det
8	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 want	xcomp
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 nah	punct
10	or	or	CCONJ	_	11 nah	cc
11	nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 want	discourse
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 want	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past · do-support	Fanny						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
2	is a not said to happen	to-infinitive	Fanny not said here	a Queen					tree rules

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

yes, she wanted a crown

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 wanted	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 wanted	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 wanted	nsubj
4	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 crown	det
6	crown	crown	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wanted	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	she	a crown					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot crown=Theme

Option 2

she chose to be a Queen and ruled for years

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 chose	nsubj
2	chose	choose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	6 Queen	mark
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 Queen	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 Queen	det
6	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 chose	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 ruled	cc
8	ruled	rule	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 chose	conj
9	for	for	ADP	_	10 years	case
10	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 ruled	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	choose	past	she			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	is a	to-infinitive		a Queen		tree rules
3	rule	past	she not said here		year	vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 3

she chose to stay a peasant wife

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 chose	nsubj
2	chose	choose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 stay	mark
4	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 chose	xcomp
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 wife	det
6	peasant	peasant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 wife	amod
7	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stay	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	choose	past	she						tree rules
2	stay	to-infinitive	she not said here	a peasant wife					vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme wife=Location

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

she chose to be fair, not a Queen

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 chose	nsubj
2	chose	choose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	5 fair	mark
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 fair	cop
5	fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 chose	xcomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 Queen	punct
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 Queen	advmod
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 Queen	det
9	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 fair	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	choose	past	she						vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	is	to-infinitive	she not said here					a Queen obl; fair property	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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