Test 9 · ★ · Old French Fairy Tales, Donkey-skin, part 18: the ring is…

did the sheep girls fit the ring, bro?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: sheep girls · What happens: fit · To what, where: ring

This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 1093 «Old French Fairy Tales, Donkey-skin, part 18: the ring is tried on every finger» 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=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 girls	aux
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 sheep	det
3	sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 girls	compound
4	girls	girl	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 fit	nsubj
5	fit	fit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 ring	det
7	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 fit	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 bro	punct
9	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 ring	conj
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 fit	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fit	present	sheep girls	the ring and bro					vn adjust-26.9 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ring=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 · ✓ the right answer

nope, their fingers were too fat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nope	nope	INTJ	_	7 fat	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nope	punct
3	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 fingers	nmod:poss
4	fingers	finger	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 fat	nsubj
5	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 fat	cop
6	too	too	ADV	_	7 fat	advmod
7	fat	fat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	their fingers					fat property	tree rules

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

yep, they fit just right

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yep	yep	INTJ	_	4 fit	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yep	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 fit	nsubj
4	fit	fit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	just	just	ADV	_	6 right	advmod
6	right	right	ADV	_	4 fit	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fit	present	they					right property	vn adjust-26.9 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent

Option 3

nope, the ring was too small

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nope	nope	INTJ	_	7 small	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nope	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 ring	det
4	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 small	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 small	cop
6	too	too	ADV	_	7 small	advmod
7	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the ring					small property	tree rules

Option 4

nope, their hands were too wide

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nope	nope	INTJ	_	7 wide	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nope	punct
3	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 hands	nmod:poss
4	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 wide	nsubj
5	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 wide	cop
6	too	too	ADV	_	7 wide	advmod
7	wide	wide	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	their hands					wide property	tree rules

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