Test 2 · ★ · Perrault's Tales, Cinderella, part 16: the Ogress's end an…

Bro, why was the King so mad when he rolled up?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: King · What happens: be, roll up · To what, where: King

This is test 2 · ★ 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	Bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 mad	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Bro	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	8 mad	advmod
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 King	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 King	det
6	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 mad	nsubj
7	so	so	ADV	_	8 mad	advmod
8	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
9	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	11 rolled	advmod
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 rolled	nsubj
11	rolled	roll	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 mad	advcl
12	up	up	ADP	_	11 rolled	compound:prt
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 mad	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the King					tree rules
2	roll up	past	King						vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=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

Nobody would spill the tea about what happened to the royal kids

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	3 spill	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 spill	aux
3	spill	spill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 tea	det
5	tea	tea	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 spill	obj
6	about	about	SCONJ	_	8 happened	mark
7	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	8 happened	nsubj
8	happened	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 spill	advcl
9	to	to	ADP	_	12 kids	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 kids	det
11	royal	royal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 kids	amod
12	kids	kid	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 happened	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spill	would	Nobody	the tea					vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location tea=Theme
2	happen	past						to the royal kids	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Because the whole court had gone quiet and nobody would say a word to him about it

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Because	because	SCONJ	_	6 gone	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 court	det
3	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 court	amod
4	court	court	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 gone	nsubj
5	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 gone	aux
6	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	quiet	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 gone	xcomp
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 say	cc
9	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	11 say	nsubj
10	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 say	aux
11	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 gone	conj
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 word	det
13	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 say	obj
14	to	to	ADP	_	15 him	case
15	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 say	obl
16	about	about	ADP	_	17 it	case
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 say	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past · perfect	the whole court					quiet property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	say speech: assert	would	nobody	a word	court			about word	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent word=Topic to he=Recipient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Nobody would spill the tea

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	3 spill	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 spill	aux
3	spill	spill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 tea	det
5	tea	tea	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 spill	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spill	would	Nobody	the tea					vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location tea=Theme

Option 4

Everyone ignored his orders

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	2 ignored	nsubj
2	ignored	ignore	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 orders	nmod:poss
4	orders	order	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 ignored	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ignore	past	Everyone	his orders					vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent order=Theme
2	order		his = he						nom order «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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