Test 1 · ★ · Blue Fairy Book, Princess Graciosa and Prince Percinet, pa…

Yo, what did the Duchess tell her women to do to Graciosa?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Duchess · What happens: tell, do · To what, where: women, Graciosa · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 1542 «Blue Fairy Book, Princess Graciosa and Prince Percinet, part 39: feathers instead of rods, a forest, and a crystal palace» 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	Yo	yo	INTJ	_	7 tell	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yo	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 tell	obj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 tell	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Duchess	det
6	Duchess	Duchess	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 tell	nsubj
7	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 tell	iobj
9	women	woman	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 tell	iobj
10	to	to	PART	_	11 do	mark
11	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 tell	ccomp
12	to	to	ADP	_	13 Graciosa	case
13	Graciosa	Graciosa	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 do	obl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 tell	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past · do-support	the Duchess		women				tree rules
2	do not said to happen	to-infinitive			Graciosa				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

hit her hard

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	hit	hit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 hit	obj
3	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	1 hit	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hit	past		her = she				hard property	vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme she=Co-Theme

Option 2

whack her

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	whack	whack	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 whack	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	whack	imperative	you not said here	her = she					vn hit-18.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

bash her with the rods, no mercy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	bash	bash	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 bash	obj
3	with	with	ADP	_	5 rods	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 rods	det
5	rods	rod	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 bash	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 mercy	punct
7	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	8 mercy	det
8	mercy	mercy	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 rods	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bash	imperative	you not said here	her = she				with the rods and no mercy	vn hit-18.1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent she=Patient with rod=Instrument

Option 4

beat her with the sticks, no pity

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	beat	beat	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 beat	obj
3	with	with	ADP	_	5 sticks	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 sticks	det
5	sticks	stick	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 beat	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 pity	punct
7	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	8 pity	det
8	pity	pity	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sticks	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	beat	imperative	you not said here	her = she				with the sticks and no pity	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent she=Patient with stick=Instrument

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