Test 9 · ★ · Fairy Tales, The King of the Sheep, part 53: Miranda leave…

Did Miranda's dad recognise her at the wedding, yeah?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: dad · What happens: recognise · To what, where: Miranda, wedding

This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 1466 «Fairy Tales, The King of the Sheep, part 53: Miranda leaves the Sheep King to attend her sister's wedding and returns to him» 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	Did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 recognise	aux
2	Miranda	Miranda	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 dad	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 Miranda	case
4	dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 recognise	nsubj
5	recognise	recognise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 recognise	obj
7	at	at	ADP	_	9 wedding	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 wedding	det
9	wedding	wedding	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 recognise	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 recognise	punct
11	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 recognise	discourse
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 recognise	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	recognise	past · do-support	Miranda's dad	Miranda		the wedding			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus

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, he knew her at once

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 knew	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 knew	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 knew	nsubj
4	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 knew	obj
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 once	case
7	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	4 knew	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	know	past	he	her = she					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Nah, he thought she was dead

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 thought	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 thought	nsubj
4	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 dead	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 dead	cop
7	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 thought	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	he						vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	she					dead property	tree rules

Option 3

Nah, he thought she was dead, so he never looked twice at the veiled bride at the altar

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 thought	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 thought	nsubj
4	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 dead	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 dead	cop
7	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 thought	ccomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 looked	punct
9	so	so	ADV	_	12 looked	advmod
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 looked	nsubj
11	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	12 looked	advmod
12	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 thought	conj
13	twice	twice	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	12 looked	advmod
14	at	at	ADP	_	17 bride	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 bride	det
16	veiled	veil	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 bride	amod
17	bride	bride	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 looked	obl
18	at	at	ADP	_	20 altar	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 altar	det
20	altar	altar	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 looked	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	he			vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	she		dead property	tree rules
3	not look	past	he	the altar	at the veiled bride; twice property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at bride=Theme
4	veil	participle				vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Yeah, he recognised her straight away, but he pretended he didn't, since he thought she was dead

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 recognised	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 recognised	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 recognised	nsubj
4	recognised	recognise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 recognised	obj
6	straight	straight	ADV	_	7 away	advmod
7	away	away	ADV	_	4 recognised	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 pretended	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	11 pretended	cc
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 pretended	nsubj
11	pretended	pretend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 recognised	conj
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 did	nsubj
13	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 pretended	ccomp
14	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 did	advmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 thought	punct
16	since	since	SCONJ	_	18 thought	mark
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 thought	nsubj
18	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 pretended	conj
19	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 dead	nsubj
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 dead	cop
21	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 thought	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	recognise	past	he	her = she	away property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus
2	pretend	past	he			tree rules
3	not do	past	he			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	think speech: other	past	he			vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	is	past	she		dead property	tree rules

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