Test 9 · ★ · Perrault's Tales, Cinderella, part 16: the Ogress's end an…

Mate, what did the sisters even talk about all day?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Mate, sisters · What happens: do, talk

This is test 9 · ★ 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	Mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 sisters	det
6	sisters	sister	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 talk	nsubj
7	even	even	ADV	_	8 talk	advmod
8	talk	talk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 did	parataxis
9	about	about	ADP	_	11 day	case
10	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	11 day	det
11	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 talk	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	Mate						vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	talk	present	the sisters				day		vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: 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

Nothing but what to eat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	root	root
2	but	but	CCONJ	_	3 what	cc
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	1 Nothing	nmod
4	to	to	PART	_	5 eat	mark
5	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 what	acl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	to-infinitive							vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Nothing but what to wear

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	root	root
2	but	but	CCONJ	_	5 wear	cc
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 wear	obj
4	to	to	PART	_	5 wear	mark
5	wear	wear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Nothing	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wear	to-infinitive							vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent what=Theme

Option 3

Nothing but what gowns, jewels and ribbons they would wear to the royal ball next week

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	11 wear	nsubj
2	but	but	CCONJ	_	4 gowns	cc
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 gowns	advmod
4	gowns	gown	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Nothing	conj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 jewels	punct
6	jewels	jewel	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 gowns	conj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 ribbons	cc
8	ribbons	ribbon	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 gowns	conj
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 wear	nsubj
10	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 wear	aux
11	wear	wear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
12	to	to	ADP	_	15 ball	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 ball	det
14	royal	royal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 ball	amod
15	ball	ball	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 wear	obl
16	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 week	amod
17	week	week	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 wear	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wear	would	Nothing				week	to the royal ball	vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Nothing but what to wear to the ball and who would dance with whom

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	root	root
2	but	but	CCONJ	_	1 Nothing	cc
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 wear	obj
4	to	to	PART	_	5 wear	mark
5	wear	wear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Nothing	acl:relcl
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 ball	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 ball	det
8	ball	ball	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 wear	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 dance	cc
10	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 dance	nsubj
11	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 dance	aux
12	dance	dance	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 wear	conj
13	with	with	ADP	_	14 whom	case
14	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 dance	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wear	to-infinitive						to the ball	vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent what=Theme
2	dance	would							vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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