Test 9 · ★ · Blue Fairy Book, Prince Hyacinth and the Dear Little Princ…

so the Fairy says she's gonna nag about his hooter?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Fairy · What happens: say, be · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 9 · ★ 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	so	so	ADV	_	4 says	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Fairy	det
3	Fairy	fairy	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 says	nsubj
4	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 nag	nsubj
6	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 nag	cop
7	gonna	gonna	PART	_	8 nag	mark
8	nag	nag	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 says	ccomp
9	about	about	ADP	_	11 hooter	case
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 hooter	nmod:poss
11	hooter	hooter	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 nag	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	the Fairy						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	is	present	Fairy					about his hooter; nag 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 · ← Mova's choice

yeah, she keeps going on about it, mate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 keeps	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 keeps	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 keeps	nsubj
4	keeps	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	going	go	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 keeps	xcomp
6	on	on	ADP	_	5 going	compound:prt
7	about	about	ADP	_	8 it	case
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 going	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 mate	punct
10	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 keeps	vocative

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	present	she					mate vocative	tree rules
2	go on	gerund	she not said here					about it	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme about it=Location

Option 2

yeah, she moans about it, dead annoying

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 moans	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 moans	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 moans	nsubj
4	moans	moan	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	about	about	ADP	_	6 it	case
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 moans	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 moans	punct
8	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 annoying	advmod
9	annoying	annoying	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 moans	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	moan	present	she					about it	vn complain-37.8 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about it=Topic

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

yeah, she keeps going on about it, proper annoying

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 keeps	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 keeps	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 keeps	nsubj
4	keeps	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	going	go	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 keeps	xcomp
6	on	on	ADP	_	5 going	compound:prt
7	about	about	ADP	_	8 it	case
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 going	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 keeps	punct
10	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 annoying	amod
11	annoying	annoying	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 keeps	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	present	she					annoying property	tree rules
2	go on	gerund	she not said here					about it	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme about it=Location

Option 4

yeah, she's gonna

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 gonna	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yeah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 gonna	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 gonna	cop
5	gonna	gonna	X	Foreign=Yes	root	root

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

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