Test 12 · ★ · Yellow Fairy Book, The Turkey-maiden, part 36: the Fairy s…

Did the Fairy say how long the Queen was sad about Delicia?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: Fairy, Queen · What happens: do, say, be · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 12 · ★ 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	Did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Fairy	det
3	Fairy	Fairy	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 say	nsubj
4	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Did	parataxis
5	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	6 long	advmod
6	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	10 sad	advmod
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Queen	det
8	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 sad	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 sad	cop
10	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 say	ccomp
11	about	about	ADP	_	12 Delicia	case
12	Delicia	Delicia	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 sad	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	do	past			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert	present	the Fairy		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	is	past	the Queen	about Delicia; long, sad property	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

She said the Queen had been sad for ages, ever since her daughter went missing

The tree, 15 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	2 said	nsubj
2	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Queen	det
4	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 sad	nsubj
5	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 sad	aux
6	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 sad	cop
7	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 said	ccomp
8	for	for	ADP	_	9 ages	case
9	ages	age	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 sad	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 went	punct
11	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	15 went	advmod
12	since	since	SCONJ	_	15 went	mark
13	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 daughter	nmod:poss
14	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 went	nsubj
15	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 said	conj
16	missing	missing	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 went	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	She			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is	past · perfect	the Queen	for ages	sad property	tree rules
3	go	past	her daughter	ever	missing property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

She said the Queen had been sad for ages

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 said	nsubj
2	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Queen	det
4	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 sad	nsubj
5	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 sad	aux
6	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 sad	cop
7	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 said	ccomp
8	for	for	ADP	_	9 ages	case
9	ages	age	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 sad	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	She						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is	past · perfect	the Queen				for ages	sad property	tree rules

Option 3

She said the King had been mad for ages

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 said	nsubj
2	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 King	det
4	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 mad	nsubj
5	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 mad	aux
6	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 mad	cop
7	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 said	ccomp
8	for	for	ADP	_	9 ages	case
9	ages	age	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 mad	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	She						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is	past · perfect	the King				for ages	mad property	tree rules

Option 4

She said the Queen had been weeping for ages, day and night, since the baby vanished

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	2 said	nsubj
2	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Queen	det
4	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 weeping	nsubj
5	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 weeping	aux
6	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 weeping	aux
7	weeping	weep	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 said	ccomp
8	for	for	ADP	_	9 ages	case
9	ages	age	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 weeping	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 day	punct
11	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 ages	conj
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 night	cc
13	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 ages	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 vanished	punct
15	since	since	SCONJ	_	18 vanished	mark
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 baby	det
17	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 vanished	nsubj
18	vanished	vanish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 said	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	She		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	weep	past · perfect · progressive	the Queen	for ages and day and night	vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	vanish	past	the baby		vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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