Test 11 · ★ · Red Fairy Book, The Twelve Dancing Princesses, part 1: Mic…

is the story about Michael the whole time or does someone else come in

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: story · What happens: be, do, come in · To what, where: story, someone

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 1504 «Red Fairy Book, The Twelve Dancing Princesses, part 1: Michael the Star Gazer finds two magic laurels» 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	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 story	cop
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 story	det
3	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 come	nsubj
4	about	about	ADP	_	5 Michael	case
5	Michael	Michael	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 story	nmod
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 time	det
7	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 time	amod
8	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 come	nsubj
9	or	or	CCONJ	_	10 does	cc
10	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 time	conj
11	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	10 does	obj
12	else	else	ADV	_	11 someone	advmod
13	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
14	in	in	ADV	_	13 come	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present		the story	about Michael	tree rules
2	do	present	the story not said here	someone		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent someone=Eventuality
3	come in	infinitive	the story			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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

mostly Michael, the lady is in it too

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	mostly	mostly	ADV	_	2 Michael	advmod
2	Michael	Michael	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Michael	punct
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 lady	det
5	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 it	nsubj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 it	cop
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 it	case
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 Michael	nmod
9	too	too	ADV	_	8 it	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the lady			it			tree rules

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

mostly Michael at first, then the princesses show up and it gets a lot more dramatic

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	mostly	mostly	ADV	_	2 Michael	advmod
2	Michael	Michael	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 show	nsubj
3	at	at	ADP	_	4 first	case
4	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	2 Michael	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 show	punct
6	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	9 show	advmod
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 princesses	det
8	princesses	princess	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 show	nsubj
9	show	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	up	up	ADP	_	9 show	compound:prt
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 gets	cc
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 gets	nsubj
13	gets	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 show	conj
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 lot	det
15	lot	lot	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 gets	obj
16	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	17 dramatic	advmod
17	dramatic	dramatic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 gets	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	show up	present	Michael				then		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	get	present	it	a lot				dramatic property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer lot=Stimulus

Option 3

mostly Michael, but the princesses and the gardener and the lady are in it too, honestly

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	mostly	mostly	ADV	_	2 Michael	advmod
2	Michael	Michael	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 it	punct
4	but	but	CCONJ	_	15 it	cc
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 princesses	det
6	princesses	princess	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 it	nsubj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 gardener	cc
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 gardener	det
9	gardener	gardener	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 princesses	conj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 lady	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 lady	det
12	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 gardener	conj
13	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 it	cop
14	in	in	ADP	_	15 it	case
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 Michael	nmod
16	too	too	ADV	_	15 it	advmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Michael	punct
18	honestly	honestly	ADV	_	2 Michael	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the princesses and the gardener and the lady			it			tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

mostly Michael, the princesses are in it too

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	mostly	mostly	ADV	_	2 Michael	advmod
2	Michael	Michael	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Michael	punct
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 princesses	det
5	princesses	princess	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 it	nsubj
6	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 it	cop
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 it	case
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 Michael	nmod
9	too	too	ADV	_	8 it	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the princesses			it			tree rules

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