Test 5 · ★ · Crimson Fairy Book, The Singing Roses, part 20: the stepmo…

Who got sent to fetch the axe then?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: send, fetch · To what, where: axe

This is test 5 · ★ 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	Who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 sent	nsubj
2	got	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sent	aux:pass
3	sent	send	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 fetch	mark
5	fetch	fetch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 sent	xcomp
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 axe	det
7	axe	axe	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 fetch	obj
8	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 fetch	advmod
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 sent	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	send	past · passive							tree rules
2	fetch	to-infinitive		the axe			then		vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent axe=Theme

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

Her eldest lass

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	3 lass	nmod:poss
2	eldest	eld	ADJ	Degree=Sup	3 lass	amod
3	lass	lass	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Her own daughter

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	3 daughter	nmod:poss
2	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 daughter	amod
3	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

The stepdaughter's own younger sister, dead keen

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 stepdaughter	det
2	stepdaughter	stepdaughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sister	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 stepdaughter	case
4	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 sister	amod
5	younger	young	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	6 sister	amod
6	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 keen	punct
8	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 keen	amod
9	keen	keen	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sister	conj

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

Option 4

Some neighbour's kid

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	2 neighbour	det
2	neighbour	neighbour	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 kid	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 neighbour	case
4	kid	kid	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

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