Test 12 · ★ · Red Fairy Book, The Queen Mouse, part 35: the Queen hides…

Innit the mouse was a fairy the whole time, though?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Innit mouse · What happens: be · To what, where: fairy

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 1538 «Red Fairy Book, The Queen Mouse, part 35: the Queen hides her baby in a basket after a mouse brings luck» 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	Innit	Innit	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 mouse	compound
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 mouse	det
3	mouse	mouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 fairy	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 fairy	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 fairy	det
6	fairy	fairy	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 time	det
8	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 time	amod
9	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 fairy	obl:unmarked
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 though	punct
11	though	though	SCONJ	_	6 fairy	advmod
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 fairy	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	the Innit mouse	a fairy			time		tree rules

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, it stayed a mouse the whole time

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 stayed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 stayed	nsubj
4	stayed	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 mouse	det
6	mouse	mouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stayed	obj
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 time	det
8	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 time	amod
9	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stayed	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stay	past	it	a mouse			time		vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme mouse=Location

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Nah, it was a mouse at first but then it was the fairy from before, like

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 mouse	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 mouse	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 mouse	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 mouse	det
6	mouse	mouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 first	case
8	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	6 mouse	nmod
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	14 fairy	cc
10	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	14 fairy	advmod
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 fairy	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 fairy	cop
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 fairy	det
14	fairy	fairy	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 mouse	conj
15	from	from	ADP	_	16 before	case
16	before	before	ADV	_	14 fairy	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 mouse	punct
18	like	like	INTJ	_	6 mouse	discourse

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	it	a mouse but the fairy					tree rules
2	is a	past	it	the fairy			then		tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, it was the fairy from before

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 fairy	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 fairy	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 fairy	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 fairy	det
6	fairy	fairy	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	from	from	ADP	_	8 before	case
8	before	before	ADV	_	6 fairy	nmod

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

Option 4

Nah, it was just a mouse

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	7 mouse	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 mouse	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 mouse	cop
5	just	just	ADV	_	7 mouse	advmod
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 mouse	det
7	mouse	mouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	it	a mouse					tree rules

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