Test 10 · ★ · d'Aulnoy's Fairy Tales, The Wonderful Sheep, part 52: Mira…

Why was she crying in the end, was it cos of the fairies?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: she · What happens: cry, be · To what, where: end

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1465 «d'Aulnoy's Fairy Tales, The Wonderful Sheep, part 52: Miranda meets talking sheep and hears the Sheep's sad story» 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	4 crying	advmod
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 crying	aux
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 crying	nsubj
4	crying	cry	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 end	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 end	det
7	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 crying	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 crying	punct
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 it	cop
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 crying	obj
11	cos	cos	SCONJ	_	14 fairies	case
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 fairies	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 fairies	det
14	fairies	fairy	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 crying	obl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 crying	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cry speech: express	past · progressive	she				in the end	cos the fairies	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in end=Location
2	is a	past		end					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, cos her dad shouted, yeah

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 shouted	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 shouted	punct
3	cos	cos	SCONJ	_	6 shouted	mark
4	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 dad	nmod:poss
5	dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 shouted	nsubj
6	shouted	shout	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 shouted	punct
8	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 shouted	discourse

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shout speech: express	past	her dad						vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Yeah, she couldn't touch them, so she cried and cried, proper sad, bruv

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 touch	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 touch	nsubj
4	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 touch	aux
5	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 touch	advmod
6	touch	touch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 touch	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 cried	punct
9	so	so	ADV	_	11 cried	advmod
10	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 cried	nsubj
11	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 touch	parataxis
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 cried	cc
13	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 cried	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 sad	punct
15	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 sad	amod
16	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 touch	advcl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 bruv	punct
18	bruv	bruv	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 sad	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	not touch	could	she	them = they	vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme they=Co-Theme
2	cry speech: express	past	she		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	cry speech: express	past	she not said here		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, she couldn't touch them, so she cried

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 touch	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 touch	nsubj
4	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 touch	aux
5	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 touch	advmod
6	touch	touch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 touch	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 cried	punct
9	so	so	ADV	_	11 cried	advmod
10	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 cried	nsubj
11	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 touch	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not touch	could	she	them = they					vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme they=Co-Theme
2	cry speech: express	past	she						vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Nah, she was just bored, innit

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 bored	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 bored	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 bored	cop
5	just	just	ADV	_	6 bored	advmod
6	bored	bored	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 bored	punct
8	innit	innit	INTJ	_	6 bored	discourse

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	she					bored property	tree rules

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