Test 6 · ★ · The Brown Fairy Book, What the Rose did to the Cypress, pa…

So the princess is dead proper fit, yeah?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: princess · What happens: be · To what, where: dead proper fit

This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 1200 «The Brown Fairy Book, What the Rose did to the Cypress, part 1: a prince chases a deer, gets lost in the desert and meets a barefoot stranger who is a lost king» 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	So	so	ADV	_	7 fit	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 princess	det
3	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 fit	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 fit	cop
5	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 fit	amod
6	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 fit	amod
7	fit	fit	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 fit	punct
9	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	7 fit	discourse
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 fit	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the princess	dead proper fit					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 · ← Mova's choice

Yeah, nobody in the whole sky is prettier and she knows it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	9 prettier	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 prettier	punct
3	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	9 prettier	nsubj
4	in	in	ADP	_	7 sky	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 sky	det
6	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 sky	amod
7	sky	sky	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 nobody	nmod
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 prettier	cop
9	prettier	pretty	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 knows	cc
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 knows	nsubj
12	knows	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 prettier	conj
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 knows	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	nobody					pretty property	tree rules
2	know	present	she	sky					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus

Option 2

Yeah, she's a stunner, no doubt about it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 stunner	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 stunner	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 stunner	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 stunner	det
6	stunner	stunner	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 doubt	punct
8	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	9 doubt	det
9	doubt	doubt	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 stunner	appos
10	about	about	ADP	_	11 it	case
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 doubt	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	she	a stunner					tree rules

Option 3

Nah, she's a bit plain, honestly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	7 plain	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 plain	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 plain	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 bit	det
6	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 plain	obl:unmarked
7	plain	plain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 honestly	punct
9	honestly	honestly	ADV	_	7 plain	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	she					a bit obl:unmarked; honestly, plain property	tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, nobody in the whole sky is prettier

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	9 prettier	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 prettier	punct
3	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	9 prettier	nsubj
4	in	in	ADP	_	7 sky	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 sky	det
6	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 sky	amod
7	sky	sky	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 nobody	nmod
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 prettier	cop
9	prettier	pretty	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	nobody					pretty property	tree rules

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