Test 14 · ★ · Perrault's Tales, Cinderella, part 16: the Ogress's end an…

So, like, why did the fairy say be home by midnight?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: do, say, be · To what, where: fairy · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 14 · ★ of lesson 1429 «Perrault's Tales, Cinderella, part 16: the Ogress's end and Cinderella's wish for the ball» 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	_	9 say	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 did	punct
3	like	like	SCONJ	_	6 did	mark
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 like	punct
5	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	6 did	advmod
6	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 say	ccomp
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 fairy	det
8	fairy	fairy	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 did	obj
9	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	11 home	cop
11	home	home	ADV	_	9 say	ccomp
12	by	by	ADP	_	13 midnight	case
13	midnight	midnight	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 say	obl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 say	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	the fairy			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fairy=Eventuality
2	say speech: assert	present		midnight		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	is	infinitive			home 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

Or the coach would stop dead

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Or	or	CCONJ	_	5 stop	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 coach	det
3	coach	coach	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 stop	nsubj
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 stop	aux
5	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 stop	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stop	would	the coach					dead property	vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

Option 2

Or the magic would all wear off and she'd be left in her rags again

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Or	or	CCONJ	_	6 wear	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 magic	det
3	magic	magic	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 wear	nsubj
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 wear	aux
5	all	all	ADV	_	6 wear	advmod
6	wear	wear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	off	off	ADP	_	6 wear	compound:prt
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 left	cc
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 left	nsubj
10	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 left	aux
11	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	12 left	aux:pass
12	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 wear	conj
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 rags	case
14	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 rags	nmod:poss
15	rags	rag	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 left	obl
16	again	again	ADV	_	12 left	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wear off	would	the magic					all property	vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent
2	leave	would · passive		magic		magic's rags	again		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme in rag=Location

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Or the magic would all wear off

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Or	or	CCONJ	_	6 wear	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 magic	det
3	magic	magic	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 wear	nsubj
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 wear	aux
5	all	all	ADV	_	6 wear	advmod
6	wear	wear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	off	off	ADP	_	6 wear	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wear off	would	the magic					all property	vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Or the lights would go out

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Or	or	CCONJ	_	5 go	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 lights	det
3	lights	light	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 go	nsubj
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 go	aux
5	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	out	out	ADV	_	5 go	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go out	would	the lights					out property	vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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