Test 9 · ★ · Crimson Fairy Book, The White Doe, part 36: the buffalo di…

Why did the fairy carriages only come out for big events?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: fairy carriages · What happens: come out

This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 1170 «Crimson Fairy Book, The White Doe, part 36: the buffalo dies, the wife poisons herself, and a queen is promised a daughter» 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=Int	7 come	advmod
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 come	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 carriages	det
4	fairy	fairy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 carriages	amod
5	carriages	carriage	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 come	nsubj
6	only	only	ADV	_	7 come	advmod
7	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	out	out	ADV	_	7 come	advmod
9	for	for	ADP	_	11 events	case
10	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 events	amod
11	events	event	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 come	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 come	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come out	past · do-support	the fairy carriages					for big events; out property	vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient

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

They were only used on occasions of state, when the whole court gathered to see them

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 used	nsubj:pass
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 used	aux:pass
3	only	only	ADV	_	4 used	advmod
4	used	use	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	on	on	ADP	_	6 occasions	case
6	occasions	occasion	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 used	obl
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 state	case
8	state	state	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 occasions	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 gathered	punct
10	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	14 gathered	advmod
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 court	det
12	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 court	amod
13	court	court	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 gathered	nsubj
14	gathered	gather	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 used	conj
15	to	to	PART	_	16 see	mark
16	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 gathered	xcomp
17	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 see	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	use	past · passive		They	occasions of state	vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
2	gather	past	the whole court			vn deduce-97.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	see	to-infinitive	the whole court not said here	occasions = occasion		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus
4	occasion			state		nom occasion «event transitive»: of=patient

Option 2

They were only used on occasions of state because the horses were too costly to feed daily

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 used	nsubj:pass
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 used	aux:pass
3	only	only	ADV	_	4 used	advmod
4	used	use	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	on	on	ADP	_	6 occasions	case
6	occasions	occasion	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 used	obl
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 state	case
8	state	state	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 occasions	nmod
9	because	because	SCONJ	_	14 costly	mark
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 horses	det
11	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 costly	nsubj
12	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 costly	cop
13	too	too	ADV	_	14 costly	advmod
14	costly	costly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 used	advcl
15	to	to	PART	_	16 feed	mark
16	feed	feed	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 costly	advcl
17	daily	daily	ADV	_	16 feed	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	use	past · passive		They	occasions of state		vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
2	is	past	the horses			costly property	tree rules
3	feed	to-infinitive	the horses not said here			daily property	vn gorge-39.6 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Agent
4	occasion			state			nom occasion «event transitive»: of=patient

Option 3

Only the royal family could ride them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	6 ride	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 family	det
3	royal	royal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 family	amod
4	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 ride	nsubj
5	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 ride	aux
6	ride	ride	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 ride	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ride	could	the royal family	them = they					vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

They were only used on occasions of state

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 used	nsubj:pass
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 used	aux:pass
3	only	only	ADV	_	4 used	advmod
4	used	use	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	on	on	ADP	_	6 occasions	case
6	occasions	occasion	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 used	obl
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 state	case
8	state	state	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 occasions	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	use	past · passive		They		occasions of state			vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
2	occasion			state					nom occasion «event transitive»: of=patient

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