Test 1 · ★ · Lang Fairy Book, Rosette, part 21: the fairies foretell da…

So the fairies basically said Rosette would get her bros killed, right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: fairies, Rosette, bros · What happens: say, get, kill · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 1524 «Lang Fairy Book, Rosette, part 21: the fairies foretell danger for Rosette» 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	So	so	ADV	_	5 said	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 fairies	det
3	fairies	fairy	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 said	nsubj
4	basically	basically	ADV	_	5 said	advmod
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	Rosette	Rosette	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 get	nsubj
7	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 get	aux
8	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 said	ccomp
9	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 bros	nmod:poss
10	bros	bro	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 killed	nsubj
11	killed	kill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 get	ccomp
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 get	punct
13	right	right	INTJ	_	5 said	discourse
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the fairies	basically property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	get	would	Rosette		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	kill	past	Rosette's bros		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

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

Nah, they said it was fine

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 said	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 fine	expl
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 fine	cop
7	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 said	ccomp

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, that's what they said, innit

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 what	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 what	punct
3	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 what	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 what	cop
5	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
6	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 said	nsubj
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 what	acl:relcl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 innit	punct
9	innit	innit	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	5 what	discourse

#	verb	tense, mood	who	roles by
1	is a	present	that	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	they	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	innit	infinitive		tree rules

Option 3

Nah, not really

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 really	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 really	advmod
4	really	really	ADV	_	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4

Yeah, but it was a fairy thing, innit

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	8 thing	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 thing	punct
3	but	but	CCONJ	_	8 thing	cc
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 thing	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 thing	cop
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 thing	det
7	fairy	fairy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 thing	amod
8	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 innit	punct
10	innit	innit	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	8 thing	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	it	a fairy thing					tree rules
2	innit	infinitive							tree rules

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