Test 7 · ★ · Blue Fairy Book, Princess Mayblossom, part 5: a stormy pro…

Ngl, what did she say she'd do instead of marrying his boss?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Ngl · What happens: say, do, marry · To what, where: boss · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 7 · ★ 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	Ngl	Ngl	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 say	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Ngl	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 say	obj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 say	aux
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 say	nsubj
6	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 do	nsubj
8	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 do	aux
9	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 say	ccomp
10	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=SCONJ	12 marrying	mark
11	of	of	ADP	_	10 instead	fixed
12	marrying	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 do	advcl
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 boss	nmod:poss
14	boss	boss	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 marrying	obj
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 say	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past · do-support	Ngl		Ngl vocative	tree rules
2	do	would	Ngl			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	marry	gerund	Ngl not said here	his boss		vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boss=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

say no

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	say	say	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	no	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	1 say	discourse

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

Option 2

run away

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	run	run	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	away	away	ADV	_	1 run	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run away	imperative	you not said here					away property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

wed the Ambassador

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	wed	wed	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Ambassador	det
3	Ambassador	Ambassador	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 wed	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wed	imperative	you not said here	the Ambassador					vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ambassador=Patient

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

marry him instead

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	marry	marry	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 marry	obj
3	instead	instead	ADV	_	1 marry	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	marry	imperative	you not said here	him = he				instead property	vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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