Test 6 · ★ · Yellow Fairy Book, The Yellow Dwarf, part 12: the Mermaid'…

Sus, why did Bellissima go off at the King, though?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Sus · What happens: go off

This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 1425 «Yellow Fairy Book, The Yellow Dwarf, part 12: the Mermaid's trick, the diamond sword, and the King's fight to reach Bellissima» 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	Sus	sus	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 go	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 go	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	6 go	advmod
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 go	aux
5	Bellissima	Bellissima	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 go	nsubj
6	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	off	off	ADP	_	6 go	compound:prt
8	at	at	ADP	_	10 King	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 King	det
10	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 go	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 though	punct
12	though	though	SCONJ	_	6 go	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 go	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go off	past · do-support	Sus					at the King	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at king=Location

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

She saw him with a maid

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 saw	nsubj
2	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 saw	obj
4	with	with	ADP	_	6 maid	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 maid	det
6	maid	maid	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 saw	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	past	She	him = he				with a maid	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

She thought he loved the Fairy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 thought	nsubj
2	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 loved	nsubj
4	loved	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 thought	ccomp
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Fairy	det
6	Fairy	fairy	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 loved	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	She						vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	love	past	he	the Fairy					vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer fairy=Stimulus

Option 3

She thought he loved the Fairy more than her

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 thought	nsubj
2	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 loved	nsubj
4	loved	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 thought	ccomp
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Fairy	det
6	Fairy	Fairy	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 loved	obj
7	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 loved	obj
8	than	than	ADP	_	9 her	case
9	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 more	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	She						vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	love	past	he	the Fairy					tree rules

Option 4

She thought he hated her

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 thought	nsubj
2	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 hated	nsubj
4	hated	hate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 thought	ccomp
5	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 hated	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	She						vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	hate	past	he	her = she					vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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