Test 2 · ★ · Fairy Tales, The Turnip Princess, part 52: the maidens wit…

Wait, so the maidens are like, grandmas now?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, maidens · What happens: wait, be

This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 1251 «Fairy Tales, The Turnip Princess, part 52: the maidens wither, and the gnome's fresh turnips go missing» 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	Wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 grandmas	punct
3	so	so	ADV	_	9 grandmas	advmod
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 maidens	det
5	maidens	maiden	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 grandmas	nsubj
6	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 grandmas	cop
7	like	like	ADP	_	9 grandmas	case
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 like	punct
9	grandmas	grandma	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Wait	obl
10	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	1 Wait	advmod
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here				now		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	present	the maidens					like grandmas	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, they're pale and wan, looking rough

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 pale	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 pale	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 pale	nsubj
4	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 pale	cop
5	pale	pale	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 wan	cc
7	wan	wan	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 pale	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 looking	punct
9	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 pale	advcl
10	rough	rough	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 looking	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is	present	they	pale property	tree rules
2	be		they not said here		tree rules
3	look	gerund	they not said here	rough property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, bent over with sticks and coughing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	3 bent	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 bent	punct
3	bent	bend	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	over	over	ADV	_	3 bent	advmod
5	with	with	ADP	_	6 sticks	case
6	sticks	stick	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 bent	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 coughing	cc
8	coughing	coughing	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sticks	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bend over	participle						with sticks and coughing; over property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Nah, they're still young and blooming, mate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 young	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 young	nsubj
4	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 young	cop
5	still	still	ADV	_	6 young	advmod
6	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 blooming	cc
8	blooming	bloom	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 young	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 mate	punct
10	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 young	vocative

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	they				still	mate vocative; young property	tree rules
2	bloom	gerund	they not said here						vn entity_specific_modes_being-47.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

Nah, still young

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 young	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	still	still	ADV	_	4 young	advmod
4	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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