Test 9 · ★ · Lang Fairy Book, Rosette, part 21: the fairies foretell da…

Did the Queen cry when the King wanted to chop Rosette's head off?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: King · What happens: do, want, chop off · To what, where: Queen cry, head

This is test 9 · ★ 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	Did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 cry	det
3	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 cry	compound
4	cry	cry	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Did	obj
5	when	when	SCONJ	_	8 wanted	mark
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 King	det
7	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 wanted	nsubj
8	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Did	advcl
9	to	to	PART	_	10 chop	mark
10	chop	chop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 wanted	xcomp
11	Rosette	Rosette	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 head	nmod:poss
12	's	's	PART	_	11 Rosette	case
13	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 chop	obj
14	off	off	ADP	_	10 chop	compound:prt
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	do	past		the Queen cry	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cry=Eventuality
2	want	past	the King		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3	chop off not said to happen	to-infinitive	the King not said here	Rosette's head	vn carve-21.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=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

Nah, she just stayed quiet

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 stayed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 stayed	nsubj
4	just	just	ADV	_	5 stayed	advmod
5	stayed	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	quiet	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 stayed	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stay	past	she					quiet property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, she said she'd rather lose her own head

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 said	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 said	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 lose	nsubj
6	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 lose	aux
7	rather	rather	ADV	_	8 lose	advmod
8	lose	lose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 said	ccomp
9	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 head	nmod:poss
10	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 head	amod
11	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 lose	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	she						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	lose	would	she	her own head					vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Eventuality

Option 3

Nah, she just laughed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 laughed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 laughed	nsubj
4	just	just	ADV	_	5 laughed	advmod
5	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	laugh	past	she						vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Yeah, she begged him to stop

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 begged	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 begged	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 begged	nsubj
4	begged	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 begged	obj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 stop	mark
7	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 begged	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	beg speech: request	past	she		him = he				vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
2	stop not said to happen	to-infinitive	she not said here						vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

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