Test 8 · ★ · Perrault's Tales, Cinderella, part 16: the Ogress's end an…

Ayy, why was the youngest sister not as mean?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Ayy · What happens: be, not mean · To what, where: youngest sister

This is test 8 · ★ 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	Ayy	Ayy	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 sister	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Ayy	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	1 Ayy	advmod
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 sister	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 sister	det
6	youngest	young	ADJ	Degree=Sup	7 sister	amod
7	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 mean	advmod
9	as	as	ADV	_	10 mean	advmod
10	mean	mean	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 sister	parataxis
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 sister	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	Ayy	the youngest sister					tree rules
2	not mean	infinitive							vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent

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 was nicer

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	3 nicer	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 nicer	cop
3	nicer	nice	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	She					nice property	tree rules

Option 2

She was more polite, really

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	4 polite	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 polite	cop
3	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	4 polite	advmod
4	polite	polite	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 polite	punct
6	really	really	ADV	_	4 polite	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	She					polite property	tree rules

Option 3

She was not as bossy to 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	5 bossy	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 bossy	cop
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 bossy	advmod
4	as	as	ADP	_	5 bossy	case
5	bossy	bossy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 her	case
7	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 bossy	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is	past	She		her = she			bossy property	tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

She was less rude, less uncivil

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	4 rude	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 rude	cop
3	less	less	ADV	Degree=Cmp	4 rude	advmod
4	rude	rude	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 uncivil	punct
6	less	less	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	7 uncivil	amod
7	uncivil	uncivil	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 rude	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	She					less uncivil obl; less, rude property	tree rules

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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