Test 12 · ★ · Fairy Tales, The White Cat: the Prince cuts off the cat's…

the Queen said she'd give her kingdoms for the fruit, so what was the old fairy's answer

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Queen, answer, old fairy · What happens: say, give, be, answer · To what, where: kingdoms · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 1453 «Fairy Tales, The White Cat: the Prince cuts off the cat's head and the spell breaks» 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	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Queen	det
2	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 said	nsubj
3	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 give	nsubj
5	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 give	aux
6	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 said	ccomp
7	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 kingdoms	nmod:poss
8	kingdoms	kingdom	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 give	obj
9	for	for	ADP	_	11 fruit	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 fruit	det
11	fruit	fruit	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 give	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 what	punct
13	so	so	ADV	_	14 what	advmod
14	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 said	parataxis
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 what	cop
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 fairy	det
17	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 fairy	amod
18	fairy	fairy	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 answer	nmod:poss
19	's	's	PART	_	18 fairy	case
20	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 what	nsubj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the Queen			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	give	would	Queen	Queen's kingdoms	for the fruit	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent kingdom=Theme for fruit=Asset
3	is a	past	the old fairy's answer			tree rules
4	answer		the old fairy			nom answer «communication transitive»: poss=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

yes, she took the gold

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 took	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yes	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 took	nsubj
4	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 gold	det
6	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 took	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	past	she	the gold					vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gold=Theme

Option 2

no, she wanted nothing but the princess and would not take any kingdom at all

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	no	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 wanted	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 wanted	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 wanted	nsubj
4	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	4 wanted	obj
6	but	but	CCONJ	_	8 princess	cc
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 princess	det
8	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 nothing	conj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 take	cc
10	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 take	aux
11	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 take	advmod
12	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 wanted	conj
13	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	14 kingdom	det
14	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 take	obj
15	at	at	ADP	_	16 all	case
16	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	12 take	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	she	nothing					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot nothing=Theme
2	not take	would	she not said here	any kingdom		all			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent kingdom=Theme at all=Asset

Option 3

yes, she accepted the kingdoms

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 accepted	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yes	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 accepted	nsubj
4	accepted	accept	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 kingdoms	det
6	kingdoms	kingdom	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 accepted	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	accept	past	she	the kingdoms					vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kingdom=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

no, she wanted nothing but the princess

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	no	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 wanted	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 wanted	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 wanted	nsubj
4	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	4 wanted	obj
6	but	but	CCONJ	_	8 princess	cc
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 princess	det
8	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 nothing	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	she	nothing					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot nothing=Theme

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