Test 9 · ★ · Red Fairy Book, The Queen Mouse, part 35: the Queen hides…

Why'd the Queen start crying when the old lady asked?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Queen, old lady · What happens: start, cry, ask

This is test 9 · ★ 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	5 start	advmod
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 start	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Queen	det
4	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 start	nsubj
5	start	start	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	crying	cry	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 start	xcomp
7	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	11 asked	advmod
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 lady	det
9	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 lady	amod
10	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 asked	nsubj
11	asked	ask	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 crying	advcl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 start	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	roles by
1	start	would	the Queen	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	cry speech: express	gerund	the Queen not said here	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	ask speech: ask	participle	the old lady	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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

Cos she was scared of the old lady

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cos	cos	SCONJ	_	4 scared	mark
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 scared	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 scared	cop
4	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	8 lady	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 lady	det
7	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 lady	amod
8	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 scared	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	she					of the old lady; scared property	tree rules

Option 2

She was sad the old lady was mean

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	3 sad	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sad	cop
3	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 lady	det
5	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 lady	amod
6	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 mean	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 mean	cop
8	mean	mean	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 sad	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	She					sad property	tree rules
2	is	past	the old lady					mean property	tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

She didn't want the mouse to be killed

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 want	nsubj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 want	aux
3	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 want	advmod
4	want	want	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 mouse	det
6	mouse	mouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 want	obj
7	to	to	PART	_	9 killed	mark
8	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 killed	aux:pass
9	killed	kill	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 want	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not want	past · do-support	She	the mouse					tree rules
2	kill not said to happen	to-infinitive · passive	the mouse not said here						vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

She felt sorry for the mouse

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	2 felt	nsubj
2	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	sorry	sorry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 felt	xcomp
4	for	for	ADP	_	6 mouse	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 mouse	det
6	mouse	mouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 felt	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	feel	past	She					for the mouse; sorry property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1538-pg540-part35/t9/