Test 12 · ★ · Blue Fairy Book, Princess Mayblossom, part 5: a stormy pro…

Lol, why did the Queen faint, innit?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Queen faint · What happens: do, innit · To what, where: Queen faint

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 1508 «Blue Fairy Book, Princess Mayblossom, part 5: a stormy procession, a cursed scarf, a midnight escape by boat» 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	Lol	lol	INTJ	_	4 did	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 did	advmod
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 faint	det
6	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 faint	compound
7	faint	faint	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 innit	punct
9	innit	innit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 faint	acl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past		the Queen faint					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent faint=Eventuality
2	innit	infinitive	the Queen faint not said here						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

she was ill

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 ill	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 ill	cop
3	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	she					ill property	tree rules

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

she saw a ghost there

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 saw	nsubj
2	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 ghost	det
4	ghost	ghost	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 saw	obj
5	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 saw	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	past	she	a ghost		there			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer ghost=Stimulus

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

she heard the Princess was lost

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 heard	nsubj
2	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Princess	det
4	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 lost	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 lost	aux:pass
6	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 heard	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hear	past	she						vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	lose	past · passive		the Princess					vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality

Option 4

the heat was too strong

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 heat	det
2	heat	heat	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 strong	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 strong	cop
4	too	too	ADV	_	5 strong	advmod
5	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the heat					strong property	tree rules

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