Test 3 · ★ · Red Fairy Book, The Twelve Dancing Princesses, part 1: Mic…

ngl the princesses wearing out their shoes sounds mad sus

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: princesses · What happens: ngl, wear out, sound · To what, where: princesses, shoes, mad sus

This is test 3 · ★ 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	ngl	ngl	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	8 sounds	nsubj
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 princesses	det
3	princesses	princess	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 ngl	obj
4	wearing	wear	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 princesses	acl
5	out	out	ADP	_	4 wearing	compound:prt
6	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 shoes	nmod:poss
7	shoes	shoe	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 wearing	obj
8	sounds	sound	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 sus	amod
10	sus	sus	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 sounds	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	ngl	infinitive		the princesses	tree rules
2	wear out	gerund	the princesses not said here	princesses's shoes	vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent shoe=Theme
3	sound	present		mad sus	vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location sus=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 · ← Mova's choice

fr, nobody can explain it and the maids are scared of going into the room

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	fr	fr	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 explain	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 fr	punct
3	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	5 explain	nsubj
4	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 explain	aux
5	explain	explain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 explain	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 scared	cc
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 maids	det
9	maids	maid	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 scared	nsubj
10	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 scared	cop
11	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 explain	conj
12	of	of	SCONJ	_	13 going	mark
13	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 scared	advcl
14	into	into	ADP	_	16 room	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 room	det
16	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 going	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	explain speech: assert	can	fr	it			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic
2	is	present	the maids			scared property	tree rules
3	go	gerund	the maids not said here		the room		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into room=Initial_Location

Option 2

fr, the shoes are probably just cheap

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	fr	fr	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 cheap	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 shoes	det
4	shoes	shoe	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 cheap	nsubj
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 cheap	cop
6	probably	probably	ADV	_	8 cheap	advmod
7	just	just	ADV	_	8 cheap	advmod
8	cheap	cheap	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 fr	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the shoes	fr not said here				cheap, probably property	tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

fr, nobody can explain it, it's proper weird

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	fr	fr	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 explain	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 fr	punct
3	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	5 explain	nsubj
4	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 explain	aux
5	explain	explain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 explain	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 explain	punct
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 weird	nsubj
9	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 weird	cop
10	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 weird	amod
11	weird	weird	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 explain	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	explain speech: assert	can	fr	it					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic
2	is	present	fr					weird property	tree rules

Option 4

no clue, maybe a witch is involved, but nobody in the castle will say anything about it

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	2 clue	det
2	clue	clue	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 involved	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 clue	punct
4	maybe	maybe	ADV	_	6 witch	advmod
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 witch	det
6	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 clue	nmod
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 involved	cop
8	involved	involved	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 say	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 say	cc
11	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	16 say	nsubj
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 castle	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 castle	det
14	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 nobody	nmod
15	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 say	aux
16	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 involved	conj
17	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	16 say	obj
18	about	about	ADP	_	19 it	case
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 anything	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	no clue a witch					involved property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	future	nobody	anything				about clue	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent anything=Topic

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