Test 7 · ★ · Yellow Fairy Book, The Turkey-maiden, part 36: the Fairy s…

Did the Fairy go all dodgy on Cancaline, like?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Fairy · What happens: go

This is test 7 · ★ 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	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 go	aux
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Fairy	det
3	Fairy	fairy	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 go	nsubj
4	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	all	all	ADV	_	6 dodgy	advmod
6	dodgy	dodgy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 go	xcomp
7	on	on	ADP	_	8 Cancaline	case
8	Cancaline	Cancaline	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 dodgy	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 like	punct
10	like	like	ADP	_	4 go	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 go	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past · do-support	the Fairy					dodgy property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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 · ← Mova's choice

Nah, she just said Cancaline was rude

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 said	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 said	nsubj
4	just	just	ADV	_	5 said	advmod
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	Cancaline	Cancaline	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 rude	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 rude	cop
8	rude	rude	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 said	ccomp

#	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	Cancaline					rude property	tree rules

Option 2

Nah, she just said Cancaline was cruel and told her off, nothing more than that

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 said	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 said	nsubj
4	just	just	ADV	_	5 said	advmod
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	Cancaline	Cancaline	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 cruel	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 cruel	cop
8	cruel	cruel	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 said	ccomp
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 told	cc
10	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 said	conj
11	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 told	iobj
12	off	off	ADP	_	10 told	compound:prt
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 more	punct
14	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	15 more	nsubj
15	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	10 told	conj
16	than	than	ADP	_	17 that	case
17	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	15 more	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	she			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	Cancaline		cruel property	tree rules
3	tell off speech: assert	past	she not said here	Cancaline		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient

Option 3

Yeah, she turned Cancaline into a toad and banished her from the kingdom forever

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 turned	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 turned	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 turned	nsubj
4	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	Cancaline	Cancaline	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 turned	obj
6	into	into	ADP	_	8 toad	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 toad	det
8	toad	toad	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 turned	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 banished	cc
10	banished	banish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 turned	conj
11	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 banished	obj
12	from	from	ADP	_	14 kingdom	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 kingdom	det
14	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 banished	obl
15	forever	forever	ADV	_	10 banished	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	past	she	Cancaline				into a toad result	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent cancaline=Theme into toad=Result
2	banish	past	she not said here	Cancaline		the kingdom		forever property	vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent she=Theme from kingdom=Source

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Nah, she just said Cancaline was cruel

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 said	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 said	nsubj
4	just	just	ADV	_	5 said	advmod
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	Cancaline	Cancaline	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 cruel	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 cruel	cop
8	cruel	cruel	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 said	ccomp

#	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	Cancaline					cruel property	tree rules

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