Test 9 · ★ · The Yellow Fairy Book, The Yellow Dwarf, part 1: a proud p…

so the princess is literally fifteen and nobody's allowed to date her?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: princess · What happens: be, allow · To what, where: fifteen, nobody, princess

This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 1421 «The Yellow Fairy Book, The Yellow Dwarf, part 1: a proud princess and a queen's bargain with a dwarf» 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	_	6 fifteen	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 princess	det
3	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 fifteen	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 fifteen	cop
5	literally	literally	ADV	_	6 fifteen	advmod
6	fifteen	fifteen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 allowed	cc
8	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	10 allowed	nsubj:pass
9	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 allowed	aux:pass
10	allowed	allow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 fifteen	conj
11	to	to	PART	_	12 date	mark
12	date	date	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 allowed	xcomp
13	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 allowed	iobj
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 fifteen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the princess	fifteen				literally property	tree rules
2	allow	present · passive		nobody	princess				vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: subject=Goal she=Theme

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 · ✓ the right answer

yup, she's fifteen and kinda untouchable

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yup	yup	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 fifteen	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 fifteen	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 fifteen	cop
5	fifteen	fifteen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	1 yup	appos
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 untouchable	cc
7	kinda	kinda	ADV	_	8 untouchable	advmod
8	untouchable	untouchable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 fifteen	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	she	fifteen					tree rules
2	be		she not said here					kinda property	tree rules

Option 2

nah, she's just sixteen

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 sixteen	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 sixteen	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 sixteen	cop
5	just	just	ADV	_	6 sixteen	advmod
6	sixteen	sixteen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root

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

Option 3

nope, she's fifteen and totally free

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nope	nope	INTJ	_	5 fifteen	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nope	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 fifteen	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 fifteen	cop
5	fifteen	fifteen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 free	cc
7	totally	totally	ADV	_	8 free	advmod
8	free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 fifteen	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	she	fifteen					tree rules
2	be		she not said here					totally property	tree rules

Option 4

yup, she's sixteen and kinda bossy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yup	yup	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 sixteen	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 sixteen	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 sixteen	cop
5	sixteen	sixteen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	1 yup	appos
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 bossy	cc
7	kinda	kinda	ADV	_	8 bossy	advmod
8	bossy	bossy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 sixteen	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	she	sixteen					tree rules
2	be		she not said here					kinda property	tree rules

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