Test 11 · ★ · d'Aulnoy Fairy Tales, Graciosa and Percinet, part 37: the…

Did the Fairy have a massive dress or a tiny one?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Fairy · What happens: have · To what, where: massive dress

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 1540 «d'Aulnoy Fairy Tales, Graciosa and Percinet, part 37: the Wicked King's ruin and Grumbly's crown-filled casks» 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=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 Fairy	aux
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Fairy	det
3	Fairy	Fairy	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 have	nsubj
4	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 dress	det
6	massive	massive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 dress	amod
7	dress	dress	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 have	obj
8	or	or	CCONJ	_	11 one	cc
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 one	det
10	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 one	amod
11	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 dress	conj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 have	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	the Fairy	a massive dress or a tiny one					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dress=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 · ✓ the right answer

Massive, its train was at least ten ells long, bare long

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Massive	massive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 long	punct
3	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 train	nmod:poss
4	train	train	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 long	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 long	cop
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 least	case
7	least	least	ADJ	Degree=Sup	8 ten	nmod
8	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 ells	nummod
9	ells	ell	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 long	obl:unmarked
10	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Massive	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 long	punct
12	bare	bare	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 long	amod
13	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Massive	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	its train					ten ells obl:unmarked; long property	tree rules

Option 2

Small, actually, its train was only a few feet, mate.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 feet	amod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 feet	punct
3	actually	actually	ADV	_	11 feet	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 feet	punct
5	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 train	nmod:poss
6	train	train	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 feet	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 feet	cop
8	only	only	ADV	_	11 feet	advmod
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 feet	det
10	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 feet	amod
11	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 mate	punct
13	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 feet	conj
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 feet	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	its train	a Small few feet and mate				actually property	tree rules

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Massive, mate, the train was so long it swept the whole hall clean and had to be carried by six servants at once.

The tree, 23 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Massive	massive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 mate	amod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Massive	punct
3	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 long	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 train	punct
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 train	det
6	train	train	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 mate	conj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 long	cop
8	so	so	ADV	_	9 long	advmod
9	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	11 swept	advmod
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 swept	nsubj
11	swept	sweep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 hall	det
13	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 hall	amod
14	hall	hall	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 swept	obj
15	clean	clean	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 swept	xcomp
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 had	cc
17	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 swept	conj
18	to	to	PART	_	20 carried	mark
19	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	20 carried	aux:pass
20	carried	carry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 had	xcomp
21	by	by	ADP	_	23 servants	case
22	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	23 servants	nummod
23	servants	servant	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 carried	obl
24	at	at	ADP	_	25 once	case
25	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	20 carried	obl
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 swept	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	Massive mate and the train		long property	tree rules
2	sweep	past	train	the whole hall	clean property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location hall=Theme
3	have	past	train not said here			tree rules
4	carry	to-infinitive · passive	six servants			vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Tiny, its train was barely a yard long, quite small, innit.

The tree, 11 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 long	punct
3	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 train	nmod:poss
4	train	train	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 long	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 long	cop
6	barely	barely	ADV	_	9 long	advmod
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 yard	det
8	yard	yard	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 long	obl:unmarked
9	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Tiny	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 small	punct
11	quite	quite	ADV	_	12 small	advmod
12	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Tiny	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 innit	punct
14	innit	innit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Tiny	conj
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Tiny	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	its train					a yard obl:unmarked; barely, long property	tree rules
2	innit	infinitive							tree rules

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