Test 8 · ★ · Project Gutenberg pg503, Princess Miranda, part 51: the Ki…

Why'd the tiny tongue not work, though?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: tiny tongue · What happens: not work though

This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 1464 «Project Gutenberg pg503, Princess Miranda, part 51: the King orders Miranda killed, and her faithful animals die for her» 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	7 work	advmod
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 work	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 tongue	det
4	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 tongue	amod
5	tongue	tongue	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 work	nsubj
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 work	advmod
7	work	work	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 though	punct
9	though	though	SCONJ	_	7 work	compound:prt
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 work	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not work though	would	the tiny tongue						vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: 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

it had been torn in two

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 torn	nsubj:pass
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 torn	aux
3	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 torn	aux:pass
4	torn	tear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 two	case
6	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 torn	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tear	past · perfect · passive		it		two			vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

it was no bigger than a thumb and had gone black

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 bigger	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 bigger	cop
3	no	no	ADV	_	4 bigger	advmod
4	bigger	big	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
5	than	than	ADP	_	7 thumb	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 thumb	det
7	thumb	thumb	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 bigger	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 gone	cc
9	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 gone	aux
10	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 bigger	conj
11	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 gone	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is	past	it					than a thumb; big property	tree rules
2	go	past · perfect						black property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

it was no bigger than her thumb and hard as bark

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 bigger	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 bigger	cop
3	no	no	ADV	_	4 bigger	advmod
4	bigger	big	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
5	than	than	ADP	_	7 thumb	case
6	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 thumb	nmod:poss
7	thumb	thumb	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 bigger	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 bark	cc
9	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 bark	amod
10	as	as	ADP	_	9 hard	fixed
11	bark	bark	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 thumb	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is	past	it					than her thumb and hard bark; big property	tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

it was no bigger than her thumb

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 bigger	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 bigger	cop
3	no	no	ADV	_	4 bigger	advmod
4	bigger	big	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
5	than	than	ADP	_	7 thumb	case
6	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 thumb	nmod:poss
7	thumb	thumb	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 bigger	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is	past	it					than her thumb; big property	tree rules

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