Test 7 · ★ · Blue Fairy Book, Prince Hyacinth and the Dear Little Princ…

and the Prince reckons his maid's a bit of a sucker-up?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Prince, maid · What happens: reckon, be · To what, where: bit

This is test 7 · ★ 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	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 reckons	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Prince	det
3	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 reckons	nsubj
4	reckons	reckon	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 maid	nmod:poss
6	maid	maid	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 bit	nsubj
7	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 bit	cop
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 bit	det
9	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 reckons	ccomp
10	of	of	ADP	_	14 up	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 up	det
12	sucker	sucker	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 up	compound
13	-	-	PUNCT	_	12 sucker	punct
14	up	up	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 bit	nmod
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 reckons	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	reckon	present	the Prince						vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
2	is a	present	Prince's maid	a bit				of a sucker up	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

yeah, she's always buttering her up, dead obvious

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 buttering	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 buttering	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 buttering	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 buttering	aux
5	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	6 buttering	advmod
6	buttering	butter	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 buttering	obj
8	up	up	ADP	_	6 buttering	compound:prt
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 buttering	punct
10	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 obvious	amod
11	obvious	obvious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 buttering	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	butter up	present · progressive	she		her = she			always property	vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Destination

Option 2

yeah, she calls him a genius, obvs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 calls	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 calls	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 calls	nsubj
4	calls	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 calls	obj
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 genius	det
7	genius	genius	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 calls	xcomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 obvs	punct
9	obvs	obv	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 genius	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	call	present	she		him = he				vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

nah, the maid's the one who gets bossed around all day and cries about it in the scullery later

The tree, 20 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	7 one	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 maid	det
4	maid	maid	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 one	nsubj
5	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 one	cop
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 one	det
7	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 bossed	nsubj
9	gets	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 bossed	aux:pass
10	bossed	boss	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 one	acl:relcl
11	around	around	ADP	_	13 day	case
12	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	13 day	det
13	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 bossed	obl
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 cries	cc
15	cries	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 bossed	conj
16	about	about	ADP	_	17 it	case
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 cries	obl
18	in	in	ADP	_	20 scullery	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 scullery	det
20	scullery	scullery	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 cries	obl
21	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	15 cries	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the maid	the one				tree rules
2	boss	present · passive		the one		day		vn captain-29.8-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Beneficiary
3	cry speech: express	present			the scullery		about maid; late property	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about it=Topic

Option 4

yeah, she's dead loyal, mate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 loyal	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 loyal	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 loyal	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 loyal	cop
5	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 loyal	amod
6	loyal	loyal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 mate	punct
8	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 loyal	vocative

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

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