Test 4 · ★ · Fairy Tales, Cinderella: the ball, the lost slipper, the s…

did the sisters get the slipper to fit?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: sisters · What happens: get, fit · To what, where: slipper

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 1430 «Fairy Tales, Cinderella: the ball, the lost slipper, the sisters forgiven» 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	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sisters	aux
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 sisters	det
3	sisters	sister	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 get	nsubj
4	get	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 slipper	det
6	slipper	slipper	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 get	obj
7	to	to	PART	_	8 fit	mark
8	fit	fit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 slipper	acl
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 get	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	present	the sisters	the slipper					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer slipper=Stimulus
2	fit	to-infinitive	the sisters not said here	the slipper not said here					vn adjust-26.9 «NP V S_ING»: 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

nope, the shoe was too tight

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nope	nope	INTJ	_	7 tight	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nope	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 shoe	det
4	shoe	shoe	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 tight	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 tight	cop
6	too	too	ADV	_	7 tight	advmod
7	tight	tight	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

nope, their feet were too big

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nope	nope	INTJ	_	7 big	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nope	punct
3	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 feet	nmod:poss
4	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 big	nsubj
5	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 big	cop
6	too	too	ADV	_	7 big	advmod
7	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

nope, their feet were way too big, and they cried about it all day long

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nope	nope	INTJ	_	6 way	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nope	punct
3	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 feet	nmod:poss
4	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 way	nsubj
5	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 way	cop
6	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 big	nsubj
7	too	too	ADV	_	8 big	advmod
8	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 cried	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 cried	cc
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 cried	nsubj
12	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 big	conj
13	about	about	ADP	_	14 it	case
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 cried	obl
15	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	16 day	det
16	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 cried	obl:unmarked
17	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	12 cried	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	their feet	way					tree rules
2	cry speech: express	past	feet = foot				day	about way; long property	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about it=Topic

Option 4

nope, their feet were too big and the shoe pinched both of them badly

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nope	nope	INTJ	_	7 big	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nope	punct
3	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 feet	nmod:poss
4	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 big	nsubj
5	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 big	cop
6	too	too	ADV	_	7 big	advmod
7	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 pinched	cc
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 shoe	det
10	shoe	shoe	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 pinched	nsubj
11	pinched	pinch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 big	conj
12	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	11 pinched	obj
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 them	case
14	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 both	nmod
15	badly	badly	ADV	Degree=Pos	11 pinched	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	their feet					big property	tree rules
2	pinch	past	the shoe	both				badly property	vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent both=Theme

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