Test 1 · ★ · Yellow Fairy Book, The Turkey-maiden, part 36: the Fairy s…

Yo, was the fairy really a mouse or nah?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be · To what, where: fairy

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 1539 «Yellow Fairy Book, The Turkey-maiden, part 36: the Fairy saves the Queen and finds Delicia as a turkey-maiden» 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	Yo	yo	INTJ	_	5 fairy	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yo	punct
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 fairy	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 fairy	det
5	fairy	fairy	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	really	really	ADV	_	8 mouse	advmod
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 mouse	det
8	mouse	mouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 fairy	nmod
9	or	or	CCONJ	_	10 nah	cc
10	nah	nah	INTJ	_	8 mouse	conj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 fairy	punct

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

Neither, she was a lady, innit

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Neither	neither	ADV	_	6 lady	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Neither	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 lady	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 lady	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 lady	det
6	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 innit	punct
8	innit	innit	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 lady	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	she	a lady and innit				neither property	tree rules

Option 2

Both, mate, she was a mouse first then a old lady at the window, innit

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	3 mate	det
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Both	punct
3	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 mouse	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 mate	punct
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 mouse	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 mouse	cop
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 mouse	det
8	mouse	mouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	13 lady	advmod
10	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	13 lady	advmod
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 lady	det
12	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 lady	amod
13	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 mouse	nmod
14	at	at	ADP	_	16 window	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 window	det
16	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 lady	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 innit	punct
18	innit	innit	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 mouse	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	both mate	a mouse and innit				a old lady at the window nmod	tree rules

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Both, she could swap shapes whenever she liked, innit, that's the trick of it

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	5 swap	nsubj:outer
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Both	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 swap	nsubj
4	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 swap	aux
5	swap	swap	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	shapes	shape	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 swap	obj
7	whenever	whenever	ADV	PronType=Rel	9 liked	advmod
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 liked	nsubj
9	liked	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 swap	advcl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 innit	punct
11	innit	innit	INTJ	_	5 swap	discourse
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 trick	punct
13	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	16 trick	nsubj
14	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 trick	cop
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 trick	det
16	trick	trick	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 swap	parataxis
17	of	of	ADP	_	18 it	case
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 trick	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	swap	could	Both	shapes		vn exchange-13.6.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shape=Theme
2	like	past	she		whenever property	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
3	is a	present	that	the trick	of trick	tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Both, she swapped shapes, innit

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	4 swapped	obl
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Both	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 swapped	nsubj
4	swapped	swap	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	shapes	shape	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 swapped	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 innit	punct
7	innit	innit	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 swapped	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	swap	past	she	Both				innit obl	vn exchange-13.6.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shape=Theme

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