Test 2 · ★ · Fairy Book, The Old Woman and the Prince: a condemned yout…

Mate, why did the young man get bare mad at her?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Mate · What happens: do, get · To what, where: young man

This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 1280 «Fairy Book, The Old Woman and the Prince: a condemned youth wins a strange marriage and proves he is the king's true son» 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	Mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 get	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 did	advmod
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Mate	acl:relcl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 man	det
6	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 man	amod
7	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obj
8	get	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	bare	bare	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 mad	amod
10	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 get	xcomp
11	at	at	ADP	_	12 her	case
12	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 get	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 get	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past		the young man					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Eventuality
2	get	present	Mate					at her = she; mad property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

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

He said she was far too old

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc 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	7 old	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 old	cop
5	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	7 old	advmod
6	too	too	ADV	_	7 old	advmod
7	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 said	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	He						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	she					far, old property	tree rules

Option 2

He thought she was a total weirdo

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 thought	nsubj
2	thought	think	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	7 weirdo	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 weirdo	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 weirdo	det
6	total	total	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 weirdo	amod
7	weirdo	weirdo	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 thought	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	He						vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is a	past	she	a total weirdo					tree rules

Option 3

He said she was too old to marry and that he'd rather die than be stuck with a mad old witch like that

The tree, 24 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc 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 old	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 old	cop
5	too	too	ADV	_	6 old	advmod
6	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 said	ccomp
7	to	to	PART	_	8 marry	mark
8	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 old	xcomp
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 die	cc
10	that	that	SCONJ	_	14 die	mark
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 die	nsubj
12	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 die	aux
13	rather	rather	ADV	_	14 die	advmod
14	die	die	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 marry	conj
15	than	than	ADP	_	17 stuck	case
16	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	17 stuck	cop
17	stuck	stuck	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 die	obl
18	with	with	ADP	_	22 witch	case
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 witch	det
20	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 witch	amod
21	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 witch	amod
22	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 stuck	obl
23	like	like	ADP	_	24 that	case
24	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	22 witch	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	He		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	she	old property	tree rules
3	marry	to-infinitive	she not said here		vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
4	die	would	he		vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
5	is	infinitive		with a mad old witch like that; stuck property	tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

He said she was too old to marry

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc 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 old	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 old	cop
5	too	too	ADV	_	6 old	advmod
6	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 said	ccomp
7	to	to	PART	_	8 marry	mark
8	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 old	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	He		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	she	old property	tree rules
3	marry	to-infinitive	she not said here		vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient

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