Test 13 · ★ · Crimson Fairy Book, The Singing Roses, part 20: the stepmo…

Why was the girl's life even worse now, mate?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: life · What happens: be

This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 1154 «Crimson Fairy Book, The Singing Roses, part 20: the stepmother drowns the princess and disguises her own daughter as the bride» 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Rel	root	root
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Why	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 girl	det
4	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 life	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 girl	case
6	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Why	nsubj
7	even	even	ADV	_	8 worse	advmod
8	worse	badly	ADV	Degree=Cmp	9 now	advmod
9	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	1 Why	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 mate	punct
11	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Why	vocative
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Why	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the girl's life				now	mate vocative; why property	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

He left, mate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 left	nsubj
2	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 mate	punct
4	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 left	vocative

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leave	past	He					mate vocative	vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

Her mum was asleep

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	Her mum					asleep property	tree rules

Option 3

The king was away

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 king	det
2	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 away	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 away	cop
4	away	away	ADV	_	root	root

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

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Her dad's back was turned

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 dad	nmod:poss
2	dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 back	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 dad	case
4	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 turned	nsubj:pass
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 turned	aux:pass
6	turned	turn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	past · passive		Her dad's back					vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme

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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