Test 3 · ★ · Blue Fairy Book, Princess Graciosa and Prince Percinet, pa…

Why did Graciosa fake being poorly, like?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Graciosa · What happens: fake, be

This is test 3 · ★ 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 fake	advmod
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 fake	aux
3	Graciosa	Graciosa	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 fake	nsubj
4	fake	fake	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 poorly	cop
6	poorly	poorly	ADV	_	4 fake	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 fake	punct
8	like	like	ADP	_	4 fake	obl
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 fake	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fake	past · do-support	Graciosa						vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	is	gerund						poorly property	tree rules

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

so the Duchess thought she was battered

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	so	so	ADV	_	4 thought	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Duchess	det
3	Duchess	Duchess	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 thought	nsubj
4	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 battered	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 battered	aux:pass
7	battered	batter	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 thought	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	the Duchess						vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	batter	past · passive		Duchess					vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP»: subject=Instrument

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

so the Duchess thought she was battered and would call off the whole beating right away

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	so	so	ADV	_	4 thought	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Duchess	det
3	Duchess	Duchess	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 thought	nsubj
4	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 battered	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 battered	aux:pass
7	battered	batter	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 thought	ccomp
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 call	cc
9	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 call	aux
10	call	call	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 battered	conj
11	off	off	ADP	_	10 call	compound:prt
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 beating	det
13	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 beating	amod
14	beating	beating	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 call	xcomp
15	right	right	ADV	_	16 away	advmod
16	away	away	ADV	_	10 call	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	the Duchess			vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	batter	past · passive		Duchess		vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP»: subject=Instrument
3	call off speech: assert	would		the whole beating	away property	vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

cos she fancied a lie-in and wanted the Duchess to fuss over her all day long

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cos	cos	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 fancied	nsubj
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 fancied	nsubj
3	fancied	fancy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 in	det
5	lie	lie	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 in	compound
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 lie	punct
7	in	in	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 fancied	obj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 wanted	cc
9	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 fancied	conj
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Duchess	det
11	Duchess	Duchess	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 wanted	obj
12	to	to	PART	_	13 fuss	mark
13	fuss	fuss	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 wanted	xcomp
14	over	over	ADP	_	15 her	case
15	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 fuss	obl
16	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	17 day	det
17	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 fuss	obl:unmarked
18	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	13 fuss	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	fancy	past	cos	a lie in			vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer in=Stimulus
2	want	past	cos not said here	the Duchess			tree rules
3	fuss not said to happen	to-infinitive	the Duchess not said here		day	over cos; long property	tree rules

Option 4

so the Duchess figured she was knackered

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	so	so	ADV	_	4 figured	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Duchess	det
3	Duchess	Duchess	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 figured	nsubj
4	figured	figure	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 knackered	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 knackered	aux:pass
7	knackered	knacker	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 figured	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	figure	past	the Duchess						tree rules
2	knacker	past · passive		Duchess					tree rules

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