Test 8 · ★ · Lang Fairy Book, Rosette, part 21: the fairies foretell da…

Why didn't the fairies just tell her straight up?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: fairies · What happens: not tell · To what, where: her · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 8 · ★ 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	7 tell	advmod
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 tell	aux
3	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 tell	advmod
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 fairies	det
5	fairies	fairy	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 tell	nsubj
6	just	just	ADV	_	7 tell	advmod
7	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 tell	iobj
9	straight	straight	ADV	_	10 up	advmod
10	up	up	ADV	_	7 tell	advmod
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 tell	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not tell speech: assert	past · do-support	the fairies		her = she				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient

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

They'd lost their wand, dead lame

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 lost	nsubj
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 lost	aux
3	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 wand	nmod:poss
5	wand	wand	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lost	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 lame	punct
7	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 lame	amod
8	lame	lame	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 wand	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	would	They	their wand and dead lame					vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wand=Eventuality

Option 2

They were too tired, dead lame

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 tired	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 tired	cop
3	too	too	ADV	_	4 tired	advmod
4	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 lame	punct
6	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 lame	amod
7	lame	lame	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tired	conj

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

Option 3

Cos they forgot, dead lame

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cos	cos	SCONJ	_	3 forgot	mark
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 forgot	nsubj
3	forgot	forget	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 lame	advcl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 forgot	punct
5	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 lame	amod
6	lame	lame	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	forget	past	they						tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

They'd left their book at home, dead lame

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 left	nsubj
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 left	aux
3	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 book	nmod:poss
5	book	book	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 left	obj
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 home	case
7	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 left	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 lame	punct
9	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 lame	amod
10	lame	lame	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 home	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leave	would	They	their book		home and dead lame			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent book=Theme at home=Location

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