Test 8 · ★ · Fairy Tales, Cinderella: the ball, the lost slipper, the s…

did the sisters apologise?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: sisters · What happens: apologise

This is test 8 · ★ 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 apologise	nsubj
4	apologise	apologise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 apologise	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	apologise speech: apologize	present	the sisters						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

yeah, they begged her pardon on their knees and promised to be kind forever after

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 begged	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 begged	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 begged	nsubj
4	begged	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 pardon	nmod:poss
6	pardon	pardon	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 begged	obj
7	on	on	ADP	_	9 knees	case
8	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 knees	nmod:poss
9	knees	knee	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 begged	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 promised	cc
11	promised	promise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 begged	conj
12	to	to	PART	_	14 kind	mark
13	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	14 kind	cop
14	kind	kind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 promised	xcomp
15	forever	forever	ADV	_	14 kind	advmod
16	after	after	ADP	_	14 kind	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	beg speech: request	past	they	her pardon	their knees		vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent pardon=Recipient
2	promise speech: promise	past	they not said here				vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	is not said to happen	to-infinitive	they not said here			forever, kind property	tree rules
4	pardon		her = she				nom pardon «act transitive»: poss=agent

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

yeah, they begged her pardon on their knees

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 begged	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 begged	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 begged	nsubj
4	begged	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 pardon	nmod:poss
6	pardon	pardon	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 begged	obj
7	on	on	ADP	_	9 knees	case
8	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 knees	nmod:poss
9	knees	knee	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 begged	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	beg speech: request	past	they	her pardon		their knees			vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent pardon=Recipient
2	pardon		her = she						nom pardon «act transitive»: poss=agent

Option 3

yeah, they begged her pardon on their knees, crying loudly in front of the whole palace

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 begged	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 begged	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 begged	nsubj
4	begged	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 pardon	nmod:poss
6	pardon	pardon	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 begged	obj
7	on	on	ADP	_	9 knees	case
8	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 knees	nmod:poss
9	knees	knee	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 begged	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 crying	punct
11	crying	cry	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 begged	advcl
12	loudly	loudly	ADV	_	11 crying	advmod
13	in	in	ADP	_	14 front	case
14	front	front	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 crying	obl
15	of	of	ADP	_	18 palace	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 palace	det
17	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 palace	amod
18	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 front	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	beg speech: request	past	they	her pardon	their knees		vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent pardon=Recipient
2	cry speech: express	gerund	they not said here		front of the whole palace	loudly property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in front=Location
3	pardon		her = she				nom pardon «act transitive»: poss=agent

Option 4

yeah, they whined and blamed the mice

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 whined	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 whined	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 whined	nsubj
4	whined	whine	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 blamed	cc
6	blamed	blame	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 whined	conj
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 mice	det
8	mice	mouse	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 blamed	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	whine	past	they						vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	blame	past	they not said here	the mice					vn judgment-33.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mouse=Theme

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