Test 10 · ★ · Perrault's Tales, Donkey-Skin: the princess is recognised…

Could they have loved each other for like a hundred years, proper?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: they · What happens: love · To what, where: other

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1094 «Perrault's Tales, Donkey-Skin: the princess is recognised and wed to 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	Could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 loved	aux
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 loved	nsubj
3	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 loved	aux
4	loved	love	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	6 other	det
6	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 loved	obj
7	for	for	ADP	_	11 years	case
8	like	like	ADP	_	11 years	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 hundred	det
10	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 years	nummod
11	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 loved	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 proper	punct
13	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 years	conj
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 loved	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	love	could · perfect	they	each other			year		vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer other=Stimulus

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

Yeah, that's what the tale says

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 what	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 what	punct
3	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 what	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 what	cop
5	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 tale	det
7	tale	tale	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 says	nsubj
8	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 what	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	that						tree rules
2	say speech: assert	present	the tale						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

Option 2

Nah, not really

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 really	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 really	advmod
4	really	really	ADV	_	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3

Yeah, it does

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 does	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 does	nsubj
4	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	present	it						vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Nah, that's not what it says

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 what	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 what	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 what	cop
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 what	advmod
6	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 says	nsubj
8	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 what	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is a	present	that						tree rules
2	say speech: assert	present	it						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

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