Test 2 · ★ · Yellow Fairy Book, Mayblossom, part 4: the Princess spies…

why did the counsellors shut every door and window, like proper paranoid?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: counsellors · What happens: shut · To what, where: door

This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 1507 «Yellow Fairy Book, Mayblossom, part 4: the Princess spies Fanfaronade through a peep-hole and falls for 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	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	5 shut	advmod
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 shut	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 counsellors	det
4	counsellors	counsellor	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 shut	nsubj
5	shut	shut	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	7 door	det
7	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 shut	obj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 window	cc
9	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 door	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 paranoid	punct
11	like	like	ADP	_	13 paranoid	case
12	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 paranoid	amod
13	paranoid	paranoid	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 shut	obl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 shut	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shut	past · do-support	the counsellors	every door and window				like proper paranoid	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent door=Patient

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

cos the king said so, innit

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cos	cos	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 king	det
3	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 cos	ccomp
5	so	so	ADV	_	4 said	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 cos	punct
7	innit	innit	INTJ	_	1 cos	discourse

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cos	imperative	you not said here						tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	the king						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

Option 2

so nobody outside could ever earwig their secret plan about the cursed baby

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	so	so	ADV	_	6 earwig	advmod
2	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	6 earwig	nsubj
3	outside	outside	ADV	_	2 nobody	advmod
4	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 earwig	aux
5	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	6 earwig	advmod
6	earwig	earwig	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 plan	nmod:poss
8	secret	secret	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 plan	amod
9	plan	plan	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 earwig	obj
10	about	about	ADP	_	13 baby	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 baby	det
12	cursed	curse	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 baby	amod
13	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 plan	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	earwig	could	nobody	their secret plan	ever	about the cursed baby	tree rules
2	curse	participle					vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	plan		their = they			about the cursed baby	nom plan «cognition transitive»: poss=agent about=obl

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

so nobody could earwig their plan

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	so	so	ADV	_	4 earwig	advmod
2	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	4 earwig	nsubj
3	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 earwig	aux
4	earwig	earwig	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 plan	nmod:poss
6	plan	plan	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 earwig	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	earwig	could	nobody	their plan					tree rules
2	plan		their = they						nom plan «cognition transitive»: poss=agent

Option 4

so no one saw the plan

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	so	so	ADV	_	4 saw	advmod
2	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	3 one	det
3	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 saw	nsubj
4	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 plan	det
6	plan	plan	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 saw	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	past	no one	the plan					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer plan=Stimulus

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