Test 9 · ★ · Fairy Book, Muffette, the dragon's dinner and the prince's…

Bruv, why did Muffette not just take the dowry and bounce?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: not take · To what, where: dowry

This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 1182 «Fairy Book, Muffette, the dragon's dinner and the prince's sword: the princess is saved from a monster» 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	Bruv	Bruv	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 take	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Bruv	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	8 take	advmod
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 take	aux
5	Muffette	Muffette	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 did	obj
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 take	advmod
7	just	just	ADV	_	8 take	advmod
8	take	take	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 dowry	det
10	dowry	dowry	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 take	obj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 bounce	cc
12	bounce	bounce	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 dowry	conj
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 take	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not take	past · do-support		the dowry and bounce				Bruv vocative	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dowry=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

she said she'd sell out the prince for gold

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 said	nsubj
2	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 sell	nsubj
4	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 sell	aux
5	sell	sell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 said	ccomp
6	out	out	ADP	_	5 sell	compound:prt
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 prince	det
8	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sell	obj
9	for	for	ADP	_	10 gold	case
10	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sell	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	she						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	sell out	would	she	the prince				for gold	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent prince=Theme for gold=Asset

Option 2

she said she would take the dowry and bounce it

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 said	nsubj
2	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 take	nsubj
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 take	aux
5	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 said	ccomp
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 dowry	det
7	dowry	dowry	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 take	obj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 bounce	cc
9	bounce	bounce	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 take	conj
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 bounce	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	she		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	take	would	she	the dowry	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dowry=Theme
3	bounce	present	she not said here	dowry	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

she said she won't buy her life with faithlessness

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 said	nsubj
2	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 buy	nsubj
4	wo	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 buy	aux
5	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 buy	advmod
6	buy	buy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 said	ccomp
7	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 life	nmod:poss
8	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 buy	obj
9	with	with	ADP	_	10 faithlessness	case
10	faithlessness	faithlessness	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 buy	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	she						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	not buy	future	she	her life				with faithlessness	vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Theme

Option 4

she just took the dowry

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 took	nsubj
2	just	just	ADV	_	3 took	advmod
3	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 dowry	det
5	dowry	dowry	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 took	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	past	she	the dowry					vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dowry=Theme

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