Test 4 · ★ · Fairy Tales of Many Lands, The Gnome and the Princess: the…

Lowkey, was the princess actually scared of the gnome?

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

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 1252 «Fairy Tales of Many Lands, The Gnome and the Princess: the princess tricks the gnome and escapes» 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	Lowkey	Lowkey	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 princess	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Lowkey	punct
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 princess	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 princess	det
5	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	actually	actually	ADV	_	7 scared	advmod
7	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 princess	amod
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 gnome	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 gnome	det
10	gnome	gnome	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 scared	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 princess	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	Lowkey	the princess					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 · ✓ the right answer

she only pretended to be sad

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 pretended	nsubj
2	only	only	ADV	_	3 pretended	advmod
3	pretended	pretend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	6 sad	mark
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 sad	cop
6	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 pretended	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pretend	past	she						tree rules
2	is	to-infinitive	she not said here					sad property	tree rules

Option 2

she truly feared the gnome

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 feared	nsubj
2	truly	truly	ADV	_	3 feared	advmod
3	feared	fear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 gnome	det
5	gnome	gnome	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 feared	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fear	past	she	the gnome				truly property	vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer gnome=Stimulus

Option 3

she was scared at first but then pretended to be sad

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 scared	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 scared	cop
3	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 first	case
5	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	3 scared	obl
6	but	but	CCONJ	_	8 pretended	cc
7	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 pretended	advmod
8	pretended	pretend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 scared	conj
9	to	to	PART	_	11 sad	mark
10	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	11 sad	cop
11	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 pretended	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	she		scared property	tree rules
2	pretend	past	she not said here	then		tree rules
3	is	to-infinitive	she not said here		sad property	tree rules

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

she only pretended to be sad to trick him

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 pretended	nsubj
2	only	only	ADV	_	3 pretended	advmod
3	pretended	pretend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	6 sad	mark
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 sad	cop
6	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 pretended	xcomp
7	to	to	PART	_	8 trick	mark
8	trick	trick	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 sad	xcomp
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 trick	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	pretend	past	she			tree rules
2	is	to-infinitive	she not said here		sad property	tree rules
3	trick	to-infinitive	she not said here	him = he		vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient

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