Test 9 · ★ · Blue Fairy Book, Felicia and the Pot of Pinks, part 1: a p…

Was Felicia scared of robbers or nah?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be

This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 1448 «Blue Fairy Book, Felicia and the Pot of Pinks, part 1: a poor girl is cheated of her pinks and is rewarded by a Queen with a golden pitcher» 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	Was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 scared	cop
2	Felicia	Felicia	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 scared	compound
3	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 robbers	case
5	robbers	robber	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 scared	obl
6	or	or	CCONJ	_	7 nah	cc
7	nah	nah	INTJ	_	3 scared	discourse
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 scared	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past						of robbers; scared property	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 · ✓ the right answer

Nah, she had nothing to lose

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 had	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 had	nsubj
4	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	4 had	obj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 lose	mark
7	lose	lose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 nothing	acl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	she	nothing					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient
2	lose	to-infinitive	she not said here	nothing not said here					vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

Nah, she had nothing to lose, so she was fine

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 had	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 had	nsubj
4	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 fine	parataxis
5	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	4 had	obj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 lose	mark
7	lose	lose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 nothing	acl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 fine	punct
9	so	so	ADV	_	12 fine	advmod
10	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 fine	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 fine	cop
12	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	have	past	she	nothing		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient
2	lose	to-infinitive	she not said here	nothing not said here		vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is	past	she		fine property	tree rules

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Yeah, she was scared of them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 scared	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 scared	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 scared	cop
5	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 them	case
7	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 scared	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	she					of them = they; scared property	tree rules

Option 4

Nah, she had nothing to lose and nothing to fear, bruv

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 had	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 had	nsubj
4	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	4 had	obj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 lose	mark
7	lose	lose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 nothing	acl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 nothing	cc
9	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	5 nothing	conj
10	to	to	PART	_	11 fear	mark
11	fear	fear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 nothing	acl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 bruv	punct
13	bruv	bruv	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 nothing	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	have	past	she	nothing	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient
2	lose	to-infinitive	she not said here	nothing not said here	vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	fear	to-infinitive	she not said here	nothing not said here	vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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