Test 13 · ★ · Perrault, Sleeping Beauty, part 15: the Ogress Queen order…

Honest, was the Prince a bit of a coward, like?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Prince · What happens: be · To what, where: Honest bit

This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 1428 «Perrault, Sleeping Beauty, part 15: the Ogress Queen orders a tub of serpents for the family» 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	Honest	honest	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 bit	amod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Honest	punct
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 bit	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Prince	det
5	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 bit	nsubj
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 bit	det
7	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 coward	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 coward	det
10	coward	coward	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 bit	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 like	punct
12	like	like	ADP	_	7 bit	conj
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 bit	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	the Prince	a Honest bit				of a coward	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, he loved her

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 loved	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 loved	punct
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	root	root
5	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 loved	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	love	past	he	her = she					vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Yeah, he feared her, so he kept quiet about the kids

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 feared	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 feared	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 feared	nsubj
4	feared	fear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 feared	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 kept	punct
7	so	so	ADV	_	9 kept	advmod
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 kept	nsubj
9	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 feared	conj
10	quiet	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 kept	xcomp
11	about	about	ADP	_	13 kids	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 kids	det
13	kids	kid	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 kept	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fear	past	he	her = she					vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus
2	keep	past	he					about the kids; quiet property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent about kid=Location

Option 3

Yeah, he feared her, though he loved his wife and kids, and kept it all secret

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 feared	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 feared	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 feared	nsubj
4	feared	fear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 feared	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 loved	punct
7	though	though	SCONJ	_	9 loved	mark
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 loved	nsubj
9	loved	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 feared	conj
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 wife	nmod:poss
11	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 loved	obj
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 kids	cc
13	kids	kid	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 wife	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 kept	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 kept	cc
16	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 feared	conj
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 kept	obj
18	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	17 it	det
19	secret	secret	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 kept	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	fear	past	he	her = she		vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus
2	love	past	he	his wife and kids		vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer wife=Stimulus
3	keep	past	he not said here	it	secret property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, he feared her

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 feared	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 feared	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 feared	nsubj
4	feared	fear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 feared	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fear	past	he	her = she					vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus

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