Test 5 · ★ · Yellow Fairy Book, The Turkey-maiden, part 36: the Fairy s…

Did the turkey-maiden want to marry the Prince, though?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: turkey maiden · What happens: do, want, marry · To what, where: Prince

This is test 5 · ★ 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	5 maiden	det
3	turkey	turkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 maiden	compound
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 turkey	punct
5	maiden	maiden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 want	nsubj
6	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Did	parataxis
7	to	to	PART	_	8 marry	mark
8	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 want	xcomp
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Prince	det
10	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 marry	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 though	punct
12	though	though	SCONJ	_	8 marry	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	do	past			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	want	present	the turkey maiden		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3	marry not said to happen	to-infinitive	the turkey maiden not said here	the Prince	vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prince=Patient

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

Yeah, she was well keen, mate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 keen	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 keen	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 keen	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 keen	cop
5	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 keen	advmod
6	keen	keen	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 mate	amod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 keen	punct
8	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	she					keen, well property	tree rules

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Nah, she was well against it, mate, and she told him straight to his face

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	7 it	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 it	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 it	cop
5	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	7 it	advmod
6	against	against	ADP	_	7 it	case
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 told	nsubj:outer
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 mate	punct
9	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 it	vocative
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 told	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 told	cc
12	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 told	nsubj
13	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 told	iobj
15	straight	straight	ADV	_	18 face	advmod
16	to	to	ADP	_	18 face	case
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 face	nmod:poss
18	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 told	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	she					against it; mate vocative; well property	tree rules
2	tell speech: assert	past	it		him = he			to his face	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Topic to face=Recipient

Option 3

Nah, she was dead keen, mate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 keen	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 keen	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 keen	cop
5	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 keen	amod
6	keen	keen	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 mate	punct
8	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 keen	vocative

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	she	dead keen				mate vocative	tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Nah, she was well against it, mate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	9 mate	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 it	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 it	cop
5	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	7 it	advmod
6	against	against	ADP	_	7 it	case
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Nah	ccomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
9	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	she					against it; well property	tree rules

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