Test 11 · ★ · Blue Fairy Book, Prince Hyacinth and the Dear Little Princ…

does she say his nose is worth three of her mates' noses?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: she, nose · What happens: say, be · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 1417 «Blue Fairy Book, Prince Hyacinth and the Dear Little Princess, part 4: the Prince meets the old Fairy in a cave and she talks on about noses» 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	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 say	aux
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 say	nsubj
3	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 nose	nmod:poss
5	nose	nose	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 worth	nsubj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 worth	cop
7	worth	worth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 say	ccomp
8	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 worth	obj
9	of	of	ADP	_	13 noses	case
10	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 mates	nmod:poss
11	mates	mate	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 noses	nmod:poss
12	'	's	PART	_	11 mates	case
13	noses	nose	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 three	nmod
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 say	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present · do-support	she						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	his nose					worth 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 reckons it's worth four

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 reckons	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 reckons	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 reckons	nsubj
4	reckons	reckon	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 worth	advcl
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 worth	nsubj
6	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 worth	cop
7	worth	worth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 worth	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	reckon	present	she						vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	it					worth property	tree rules

Option 2

nah, she reckons it's worth a hundred of her mates' noses, all of them shorter and rounder

The tree, 19 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	7 worth	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 worth	nsubj
4	reckons	reckon	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 worth	cop
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 worth	nsubj
6	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 worth	cop
7	worth	worth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 hundred	det
9	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 worth	obj
10	of	of	ADP	_	14 noses	case
11	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 mates	nmod:poss
12	mates	mate	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 noses	nmod:poss
13	'	's	PART	_	12 mates	case
14	noses	nose	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 hundred	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 shorter	punct
16	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	19 shorter	nsubj
17	of	of	ADP	_	18 them	case
18	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 all	nmod
19	shorter	short	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	7 worth	parataxis
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 rounder	cc
21	rounder	round	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	19 shorter	conj

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

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

nah, she says it's like a turnip

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 says	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 says	nsubj
4	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 turnip	nsubj
6	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 turnip	cop
7	like	like	ADP	_	9 turnip	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 turnip	det
9	turnip	turnip	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 says	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	she						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	it					like a turnip	tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

yeah, she reckons it's like three normal ones

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 reckons	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 reckons	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 reckons	nsubj
4	reckons	reckon	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 ones	nsubj
6	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 ones	cop
7	like	like	ADP	_	10 ones	case
8	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 ones	nummod
9	normal	normal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 ones	amod
10	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 reckons	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	reckon	present	she						vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	it					like three normal ones	tree rules

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