Test 11 · ★ · Fairy Tales, The White Doe, part 40: the prince wounds the…

Yo, did Eglantine untie the doe, or did the knots win?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Eglantine, knots · What happens: untie, do, win · To what, where: doe

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 1174 «Fairy Tales, The White Doe, part 40: the prince wounds the doe, Eglantine claims her, and Becasigue finds Desiree» 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	Yo	yo	INTJ	_	5 untie	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yo	punct
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 untie	aux
4	Eglantine	Eglantine	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 untie	nsubj
5	untie	untie	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 doe	det
7	doe	doe	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 untie	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 did	punct
9	or	or	CCONJ	_	10 did	cc
10	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 untie	parataxis
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 knots	det
12	knots	knot	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 win	nsubj
13	win	win	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 did	xcomp
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 untie	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	untie	past · do-support	Eglantine	the doe	vn disassemble-23.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent doe=Patient
2	do	past			tree rules
3	win	infinitive	the knots		vn succeed-74-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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

Yes, she untied every knot

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 untied	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 untied	nsubj
4	untied	untie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	6 knot	det
6	knot	knot	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 untied	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	untie	past	she	every knot					vn disassemble-23.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent knot=Patient

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

No, she couldn't undo a single knot

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	6 undo	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 undo	nsubj
4	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 undo	aux
5	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 undo	advmod
6	undo	undo	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 knot	det
8	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 knot	amod
9	knot	knot	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 undo	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not undo	could	she	a single knot					vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent knot=Patient

Option 3

Yes, she undid one knot

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 undid	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 undid	nsubj
4	undid	undo	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 knot	nummod
6	knot	knot	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 undid	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	undo	past	she	one knot					vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent knot=Patient

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

No, she couldn't undo a single knot, so she just left the doe there

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	6 undo	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 undo	nsubj
4	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 undo	aux
5	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 undo	advmod
6	undo	undo	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 knot	det
8	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 knot	amod
9	knot	knot	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 undo	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 left	punct
11	so	so	ADV	_	14 left	advmod
12	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 left	nsubj
13	just	just	ADV	_	14 left	advmod
14	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 undo	parataxis
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 doe	det
16	doe	doe	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 left	obj
17	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	14 left	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not undo	could	she	a single knot					vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent knot=Patient
2	leave	past	she	the doe		there			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent doe=Theme

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