Test 6 · ★ · Red Fairy Book, The Twelve Dancing Princesses, part 1: Mic…

bro Lina was the only one who liked him, that's actually sweet

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: bro, only one, that · What happens: be, like · To what, where: only one, Lina

This is test 6 · ★ 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	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 one	nsubj
2	Lina	Lina	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 one	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 one	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 one	det
5	only	only	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 one	amod
6	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 liked	nsubj
8	liked	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 one	acl:relcl
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 liked	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 sweet	punct
11	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	14 sweet	nsubj
12	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 sweet	cop
13	actually	actually	ADV	_	14 sweet	advmod
14	sweet	sweet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 one	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	past	bro	the only one		tree rules
2	like	past	the only one	Lina		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot he=Theme
3	is	present	that		actually, sweet property	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 · ← Mova's choice

yeah, she said he looked pretty, which is cute, but she's too shy to say more

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 said	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yeah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 looked	nsubj
6	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 said	ccomp
7	pretty	pretty	ADV	_	6 looked	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 cute	punct
9	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 cute	nsubj
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 cute	cop
11	cute	cute	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 looked	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 shy	punct
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	17 shy	cc
14	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 shy	nsubj
15	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 shy	cop
16	too	too	ADV	_	17 shy	advmod
17	shy	shy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 said	ccomp
18	to	to	PART	_	19 say	mark
19	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 shy	advcl
20	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	19 say	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	she			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	look	past	he		pretty property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
3	is	present			cute property	tree rules
4	is	present	she		shy property	tree rules
5	say speech: assert	to-infinitive	she not said here	more		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent more=Topic

Option 2

yeah, she said he looked pretty, and honestly it's the only nice thing anyone says about him in the whole story

The tree, 22 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 said	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yeah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 looked	nsubj
6	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 said	ccomp
7	pretty	pretty	ADV	_	6 looked	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 says	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 says	cc
10	honestly	honestly	ADV	_	18 says	advmod
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 says	nsubj
12	's	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 says	ccomp
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 anyone	det
14	only	only	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 anyone	amod
15	nice	nice	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 anyone	amod
16	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 anyone	compound
17	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	18 says	nsubj
18	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 said	conj
19	about	about	ADP	_	20 him	case
20	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 says	obl
21	in	in	ADP	_	24 story	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 story	det
23	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 story	amod
24	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 says	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	she			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	look	past	he		pretty property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
3	be	present				vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	say speech: assert	present	it	the whole story	about him = he; honestly property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

yeah she said he looked pretty, it's cute

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	3 said	discourse
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 said	nsubj
3	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 looked	nsubj
5	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 said	ccomp
6	pretty	pretty	ADV	_	5 looked	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 cute	punct
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 cute	nsubj
9	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 cute	cop
10	cute	cute	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 said	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	she		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	look	past	he	pretty property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
3	is	present	it	cute property	tree rules

Option 4

yeah she said he was handsome, aww

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	3 said	discourse
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 said	nsubj
3	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 handsome	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 handsome	cop
6	handsome	handsome	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 said	ccomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 aww	punct
8	aww	aww	INTJ	_	3 said	discourse

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	she						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	he					handsome property	tree rules

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