Test 12 · ★ · Yellow Fairy Book, Princess Rosette, part 23: the wicked n…

Dude, why did the nurse's daughter look so bad?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Dude · What happens: look

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 1526 «Yellow Fairy Book, Princess Rosette, part 23: the wicked nurse plans to swap her daughter for the Princess» 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	Dude	dude	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 look	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 did	advmod
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 look	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 nurse	det
6	nurse	nurse	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 daughter	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 nurse	case
8	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obj
9	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
10	so	so	ADV	_	11 bad	advmod
11	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 look	xcomp
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 look	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	past · do-support	Dude					bad property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

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

she was so ugly that the bath and the perfumes and the dress could not help

The tree, 16 words

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	4 ugly	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 ugly	cop
3	so	so	ADV	_	4 ugly	advmod
4	ugly	ugly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	16 help	mark
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 bath	det
7	bath	bath	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 help	nsubj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 perfumes	cc
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 perfumes	det
10	perfumes	perfume	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 bath	conj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 dress	cc
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 dress	det
13	dress	dress	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 bath	conj
14	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 help	aux
15	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	16 help	advmod
16	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 ugly	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	she					ugly property	tree rules
2	not help	could	the bath and the perfumes and the dress						vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent

Option 2

her face was painted too late

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 face	nmod:poss
2	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 painted	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 painted	aux:pass
4	painted	paint	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	too	too	ADV	_	6 late	advmod
6	late	late	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 painted	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	paint	past · passive		her face				late property	vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: subject=Destination

Option 3

she was so ugly that nothing helped her at all

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	4 ugly	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 ugly	cop
3	so	so	ADV	_	4 ugly	advmod
4	ugly	ugly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	7 helped	mark
6	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	7 helped	nsubj
7	helped	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 ugly	advcl
8	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 helped	obj
9	at	at	ADP	_	10 all	case
10	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 helped	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	she					ugly property	tree rules
2	help	past	nothing		her = she	all			vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Beneficiary

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

she was so ugly nothing helped

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	4 ugly	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 ugly	cop
3	so	so	ADV	_	4 ugly	advmod
4	ugly	ugly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	6 helped	nsubj
6	helped	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 ugly	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	she					ugly property	tree rules
2	help	past	nothing						vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent

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