Test 12 · ★ · Spanish Fairy Tales, The Unfinished Houses, part 31: the g…

Was the bride dead nice to her sister-in-law at first?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: bride · What happens: be

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 1306 «Spanish Fairy Tales, The Unfinished Houses, part 31: the greedy wife sues to win the unfinished houses» 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	Was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 nice	cop
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 bride	det
3	bride	bride	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 nice	nsubj
4	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 nice	amod
5	nice	nice	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	to	to	ADP	_	12 law	case
7	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 law	nmod:poss
8	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 law	nsubj
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	12 law	punct
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 law	case
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 in	punct
12	law	law	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 nice	obl
13	at	at	ADP	_	14 first	case
14	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	12 law	nmod
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 nice	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the bride					to bride's law; nice property	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

Yeah, she was sweet to him at first

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 sweet	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 sweet	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 sweet	cop
5	sweet	sweet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 him	case
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 sweet	obl
8	at	at	ADP	_	9 first	case
9	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	5 sweet	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	she		him = he			sweet property	tree rules

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Nah, she was not nice to anyone at all, but she pretended to be warm to her sister-in-law at first

The tree, 22 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 nice	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 nice	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 nice	cop
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 nice	advmod
6	nice	nice	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	to	to	ADP	_	8 anyone	case
8	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	6 nice	obl
9	at	at	ADP	_	10 all	case
10	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 anyone	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 pretended	punct
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	14 pretended	cc
13	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 pretended	nsubj
14	pretended	pretend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 nice	conj
15	to	to	PART	_	17 warm	mark
16	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	17 warm	cop
17	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 pretended	xcomp
18	to	to	ADP	_	20 sister	case
19	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 sister	nmod:poss
20	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 warm	obl
21	-	-	PUNCT	_	24 law	punct
22	in	in	ADP	_	24 law	case
23	-	-	PUNCT	_	22 in	punct
24	law	law	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 sister	nmod
25	at	at	ADP	_	26 first	case
26	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	14 pretended	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	not is	past	she	to anyone; nice property	tree rules
2	pretend	past	she		tree rules
3	is	to-infinitive	she not said here	to her sister in law; warm property	tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, she was dead nice at first

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 nice	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 nice	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 nice	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 nice	cop
5	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 nice	amod
6	nice	nice	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 first	case
8	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	6 nice	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	she					nice property	tree rules

Option 4

Nah, not really

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 really	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 really	advmod
4	really	really	ADV	_	root	root

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

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