Test 11 · ★ · d'Aulnoy's Fairy Tales, Princess Desiree, part 38: the fal…

why was the king well mad at the end, be honest?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: king · What happens: be · To what, where: end

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 1172 «d'Aulnoy's Fairy Tales, Princess Desiree, part 38: the false bride is taken to the palace and exposed» 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	6 mad	advmod
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 mad	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 king	det
4	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 mad	nsubj
5	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 mad	advmod
6	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	at	at	ADP	_	9 end	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 end	det
9	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 mad	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 honest	punct
11	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	12 honest	cop
12	honest	honest	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 mad	conj
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 mad	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the king				at the end	mad, well property	tree rules
2	is	infinitive	the king not said here					honest 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 · ✓ the right answer

She looked like a skeleton

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 looked	nsubj
2	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	like	like	ADP	_	5 skeleton	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 skeleton	det
5	skeleton	skeleton	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 looked	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	past	She					like a skeleton	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

Option 2

She had tricked the whole court and frightened the queen's guards

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 tricked	nsubj
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 tricked	aux
3	tricked	trick	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 court	det
5	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 court	amod
6	court	court	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 tricked	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 frightened	cc
8	frightened	frighten	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 tricked	conj
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 queen	det
10	queen	queen	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 guards	nmod:poss
11	's	's	PART	_	10 queen	case
12	guards	guard	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 frightened	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	trick	past · perfect	She	the whole court					vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent court=Patient
2	frighten	past	She not said here	the queen's guards					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus guard=Experiencer

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

She had stolen his crown

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 stolen	nsubj
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 stolen	aux
3	stolen	steal	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 crown	nmod:poss
5	crown	crown	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 stolen	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	steal	past · perfect	She	his crown					vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location crown=Theme
2	crown		his = he						nom crown «communication transitive»: poss=agent

Option 4

She was a fraud

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 fraud	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 fraud	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 fraud	det
4	fraud	fraud	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	She	a fraud					tree rules

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