Test 5 · ★ · Yellow Fairy Book, Graciosa and Percinet, part 38: the Duc…

Proper, what did Graciosa's nurse tell her to do?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: nurse · What happens: do, tell · To what, where: Graciosa · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 5 · ★ 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	Proper	properly	ADV	_	4 did	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Proper	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	Graciosa	Graciosa	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 nurse	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 Graciosa	case
7	nurse	nurse	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 tell	nsubj
8	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 did	ccomp
9	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 tell	iobj
10	to	to	PART	_	11 do	mark
11	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 tell	xcomp
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	other	roles by
1	do	past			properly property	tree rules
2	tell speech: assert	present	Graciosa's nurse	Graciosa		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic
3	do not said to happen	to-infinitive	Graciosa's nurse not said here			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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 · ✓ the right answer

be amiable to the Duchess

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	2 amiable	cop
2	amiable	amiable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	5 Duchess	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Duchess	det
5	Duchess	Duchess	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 amiable	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	imperative	you not said here					to the Duchess; amiable property	tree rules

Option 2

be amiable to the Duchess and all her guests

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	2 amiable	cop
2	amiable	amiable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	5 Duchess	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Duchess	det
5	Duchess	Duchess	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 amiable	obl
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 guests	cc
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	9 guests	det:predet
8	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 guests	nmod:poss
9	guests	guest	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 Duchess	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	imperative	you not said here					to the Duchess and her guests; amiable property	tree rules

Option 3

wear her best dress

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	wear	wear	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 dress	nmod:poss
3	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	4 dress	amod
4	dress	dress	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 wear	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wear	imperative	you not said here	her best dress					vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent dress=Theme

Option 4

be amiable to the Duchess and smile at the court

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	2 amiable	cop
2	amiable	amiable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	5 Duchess	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Duchess	det
5	Duchess	Duchess	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 amiable	obl
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 smile	cc
7	smile	smile	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 amiable	conj
8	at	at	ADP	_	10 court	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 court	det
10	court	court	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 smile	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	imperative	you not said here					to the Duchess; amiable property	tree rules
2	smile	infinitive	you not said here			the court			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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