Test 7 · ★ · Crimson Fairy Book, The Singing Roses, part 20: the stepmo…

Did she threaten to chuck stones at the doves?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: she · What happens: threaten, chuck · To what, where: stones, doves

This is test 7 · ★ 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	Did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 threaten	aux
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 threaten	nsubj
3	threaten	threaten	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 chuck	mark
5	chuck	chuck	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 threaten	xcomp
6	stones	stone	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 chuck	obj
7	at	at	ADP	_	9 doves	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 doves	det
9	doves	dove	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 chuck	obl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 threaten	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	threaten	past · do-support	she						tree rules
2	chuck not said to happen	to-infinitive	she not said here	stones		the doves			vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent stone=Theme at dove=Destination

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 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, she did

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 2

Yeah, she tried

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 tried	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 tried	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 tried	nsubj
4	tried	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	try	past	she						vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

Option 3

Nah

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	root	root

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

Option 4

No way

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	DET	PronType=Neg	2 way	det
2	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

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