Test 9 · ★ · Yule-Tide Stories, The Prince and the Dove-Bride: the fals…

Real talk, why won't the wife say anything else?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: wife · What happens: not say · To what, where: anything · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 1155 «Yule-Tide Stories, The Prince and the Dove-Bride: the false bride is unmasked and both wicked women are sent away» 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	Real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 talk	amod
2	talk	talk	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 say	punct
4	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	9 say	advmod
5	wo	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 say	aux
6	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 say	advmod
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 wife	det
8	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 say	nsubj
9	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 talk	acl:relcl
10	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	9 say	obj
11	else	else	ADV	_	10 anything	advmod
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 talk	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not say speech: assert	future	the wife	anything					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent anything=Topic

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

The doves' spell keeps her quiet

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 doves	det
2	doves	dove	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 spell	nmod:poss
3	'	's	PART	_	2 doves	case
4	spell	spell	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 keeps	nsubj
5	keeps	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 quiet	nmod:poss
7	quiet	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 keeps	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	present	the doves's spell					quiet property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	spell		the doves						nom spell «state transitive»: poss=agent

Option 2

The sea took her voice away.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 sea	det
2	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 took	nsubj
3	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 voice	nmod:poss
5	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 took	obj
6	away	away	ADV	_	3 took	advmod
7	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 took	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take away	past	the sea	sea's voice				away property	vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent voice=Theme

Option 3

Fear grips her.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fear	fear	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 grips	nsubj
2	grips	grip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 grips	obj
4	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 grips	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grip	present	Fear	her = she					vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Experiencer

Option 4

A witch cursed her tongue.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 witch	det
2	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	cursed	curse	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 witch	acl
4	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 tongue	nmod:poss
5	tongue	tongue	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 cursed	obj
6	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 witch	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	curse	participle	a witch not said here	her tongue					vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tongue=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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