Test 5 · ★ · Fairy Book, The Frog and the Lion Fairy, part 1: the siste…

Did the sisters just ask the witch nicely to slide down?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: do, ask, slide down · To what, where: sisters, witch

This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 1178 «Fairy Book, The Frog and the Lion Fairy, part 1: the sisters free their husbands, and the queen's chariot crashes» 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	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 sisters	det
3	sisters	sister	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Did	obj
4	just	just	ADV	_	5 ask	advmod
5	ask	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Did	advcl
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 witch	det
7	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 ask	obj
8	nicely	nicely	ADV	_	5 ask	advmod
9	to	to	PART	_	10 slide	mark
10	slide	slide	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 ask	advcl
11	down	down	ADP	_	10 slide	compound:prt
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	do	past	the sisters			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sister=Eventuality
2	ask speech: ask	present		the witch	nicely property	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent witch=Recipient
3	slide down	to-infinitive				vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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

Yeah, they begged her really nicely

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 begged	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 begged	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 begged	nsubj
4	begged	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 begged	obj
6	really	really	ADV	_	7 nicely	advmod
7	nicely	nicely	ADV	_	4 begged	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	beg speech: request	past	they		her = she			nicely property	vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent she=Recipient

Option 2

Nah, they got her to hold the magic line while they pushed her down the cliff

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 got	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 got	nsubj
4	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 got	obj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 hold	mark
7	hold	hold	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 got	xcomp
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 line	det
9	magic	magic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 line	amod
10	line	line	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 hold	obj
11	while	while	SCONJ	_	13 pushed	mark
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 pushed	nsubj
13	pushed	push	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 hold	advcl
14	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 pushed	obj
15	down	down	ADP	_	13 pushed	compound:prt
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 cliff	det
17	cliff	cliff	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 pushed	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	get	past	they	her = she	tree rules
2	hold	to-infinitive	her = she not said here	the magic line	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent line=Theme
3	push down	past	they	her = she	vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Agent she=Theme cliff=Destination

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Nah, they tricked her with the line

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 tricked	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 tricked	nsubj
4	tricked	trick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 tricked	obj
6	with	with	ADP	_	8 line	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 line	det
8	line	line	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tricked	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	trick	past	they	her = she				with the line	vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient

Option 4

Nah, they threatened her with a big stone and then hid behind the hut until she gave up

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 threatened	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 threatened	nsubj
4	threatened	threaten	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 threatened	obj
6	with	with	ADP	_	9 stone	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 stone	det
8	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 stone	amod
9	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 threatened	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 hid	cc
11	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	12 hid	advmod
12	hid	hide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 threatened	conj
13	behind	behind	ADP	_	15 hut	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 hut	det
15	hut	hut	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 hid	obl
16	until	until	SCONJ	_	18 gave	mark
17	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 gave	nsubj
18	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 hid	advcl
19	up	up	ADP	_	18 gave	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	threaten	past	they	her = she			with a big stone	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus she=Experiencer
2	hide	past	they not said here		the hut	then		vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent behind hut=Location
3	give up	past	she					vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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