Test 4 · ★ · Fairy Tales, The White Cat: the Prince cuts off the cat's…

sick, the old fairy said give us your little girl, so what did the Queen say

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

This is test 4 · ★ 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	sick	sick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 fairy	amod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 sick	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 fairy	det
4	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 fairy	amod
5	fairy	fairy	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 said	nsubj
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 said	ccomp
8	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 give	iobj
9	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 girl	nmod:poss
10	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 girl	amod
11	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 give	iobj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 did	punct
13	so	so	ADV	_	15 did	advmod
14	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	15 did	nsubj
15	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 say	ccomp
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 Queen	det
17	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 did	obj
18	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 said	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the sick old fairy			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	give	infinitive			your little girl	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent we=Recipient girl=Theme
3	do	past		the Queen		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent queen=Eventuality
4	say speech: assert	present				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic

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

she'd give up her kingdoms, but in the end she agreed to hand over her daughter

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 give	nsubj
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 give	aux
3	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	up	up	ADP	_	3 give	compound:prt
5	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 kingdoms	nmod:poss
6	kingdoms	kingdom	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 give	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 agreed	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 agreed	cc
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 end	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 end	det
11	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 agreed	obl
12	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 agreed	nsubj
13	agreed	agree	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 give	parataxis
14	to	to	PART	_	15 hand	mark
15	hand	hand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 agreed	xcomp
16	over	over	ADP	_	18 daughter	case
17	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 daughter	nmod:poss
18	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 hand	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	give up	would	she	her kingdoms			vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kingdom=Source
2	agree speech: agree	past	she		in the end		vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	hand not said to happen	to-infinitive	she not said here			over her daughter	vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 2

she'd give her gold, but then said no

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 give	nsubj
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 give	aux
3	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 gold	nmod:poss
5	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 give	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	9 said	cc
8	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	9 said	advmod
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 give	advcl
10	no	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	9 said	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	would	she	her gold					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gold=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	she not said here				then		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent no=Topic

Option 3

she'd give up her kingdoms and all her gold, but in the end she agreed to the bargain

The tree, 19 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 give	nsubj
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 give	aux
3	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	up	up	ADP	_	3 give	compound:prt
5	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 kingdoms	nmod:poss
6	kingdoms	kingdom	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 give	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 gold	cc
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	10 gold	det:predet
9	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 gold	nmod:poss
10	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 kingdoms	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 agreed	punct
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	17 agreed	cc
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 end	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 end	det
15	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 agreed	obl
16	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 agreed	nsubj
17	agreed	agree	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 give	parataxis
18	to	to	ADP	_	20 bargain	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 bargain	det
20	bargain	bargain	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 agreed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give up	would	she	her kingdoms and her gold					vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kingdom=Source
2	agree speech: agree	past	she				in the end	to the bargain	vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

she'd give up her kingdoms, but in the end she agreed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 give	nsubj
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 give	aux
3	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	up	up	ADP	_	3 give	compound:prt
5	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 kingdoms	nmod:poss
6	kingdoms	kingdom	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 give	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 agreed	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 agreed	cc
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 end	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 end	det
11	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 agreed	obl
12	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 agreed	nsubj
13	agreed	agree	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 give	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give up	would	she	her kingdoms					vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kingdom=Source
2	agree speech: agree	past	she				in the end		vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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