Test 12 · ★ · Yellow Fairy Book, Graciosa and Percinet, part 38: the Duc…

Why was the Duchess moaning at the end, like?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Duchess · What happens: moan

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 1541 «Yellow Fairy Book, Graciosa and Percinet, part 38: the Duchess gets her gold and is thrown from the horse» 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	5 moaning	advmod
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 moaning	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Duchess	det
4	Duchess	Duchess	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 moaning	nsubj
5	moaning	moan	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	at	at	ADP	_	8 end	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 end	det
8	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 moaning	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 like	punct
10	like	like	ADP	_	5 moaning	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 moaning	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	moan	past · progressive	the Duchess				at the end		vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Agent at end=Stimulus

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 horse ran away

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 horse	det
2	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 ran	nsubj
3	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	away	away	ADV	_	3 ran	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run away	past	the horse					away property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

she lost her shoe

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 lost	nsubj
2	lost	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 shoe	nmod:poss
4	shoe	shoe	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 lost	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	past	she	her shoe					vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shoe=Eventuality

Option 3

she blamed Graciosa for the whole affair

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 blamed	nsubj
2	blamed	blame	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	Graciosa	Graciosa	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 blamed	obj
4	for	for	ADP	_	7 affair	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 affair	det
6	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 affair	amod
7	affair	affair	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 blamed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	blame	past	she	Graciosa				for the whole affair	vn judgment-33.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent graciosa=Theme for affair=Attribute

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

she blamed Graciosa

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 blamed	nsubj
2	blamed	blame	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	Graciosa	Graciosa	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 blamed	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	blame	past	she	Graciosa					vn judgment-33.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent graciosa=Theme

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