Test 8 · ★ · Red Fairy Book, The Queen Mouse, part 35: the Queen hides…

Was the old woman a proper mean one, though?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · What happens: be · To what, where: old woman

This is test 8 · ★ 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	Was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 woman	cop
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 woman	det
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 woman	amod
4	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 one	csubj
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 one	det
6	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 one	amod
7	mean	mean	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 one	amod
8	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 though	punct
10	though	though	SCONJ	_	8 one	nmod
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 one	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the old woman					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, she just wanted a chat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 wanted	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 wanted	nsubj
4	just	just	ADV	_	5 wanted	advmod
5	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 chat	det
7	chat	chat	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 wanted	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	she	a chat					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot chat=Theme

Option 2

Yeah, she wanted it for supper

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 wanted	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 wanted	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 wanted	nsubj
4	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 wanted	obj
6	for	for	ADP	_	7 supper	case
7	supper	supper	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wanted	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	she	it				for supper	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot it=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, she wanted the mouse for her dinner

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 wanted	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 wanted	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 wanted	nsubj
4	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 mouse	det
6	mouse	mouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wanted	obj
7	for	for	ADP	_	9 dinner	case
8	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 dinner	nmod:poss
9	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wanted	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	she	the mouse				for mouse's dinner	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot mouse=Theme

Option 4

Yeah, she wanted the mouse for her dinner, and she'd have boiled it alive, innit

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 wanted	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 wanted	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 wanted	nsubj
4	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 mouse	det
6	mouse	mouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wanted	obj
7	for	for	ADP	_	9 dinner	case
8	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 dinner	nmod:poss
9	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 mouse	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 boiled	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 boiled	cc
12	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 boiled	nsubj:pass
13	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 boiled	aux
14	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	15 boiled	aux
15	boiled	boil	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 wanted	conj
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 boiled	obj
17	alive	alive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 boiled	xcomp
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 innit	punct
19	innit	innit	INTJ	_	4 wanted	discourse

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	she	the mouse				for mouse's dinner	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot mouse=Theme
2	boil	would · perfect · passive		mouse				alive property	vn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: subject=Beneficiary it=Patient

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