Test 12 · ★ · The Blue Fairy Book, Princess Cabbage-Stalk, part 53: Cabb…

Who ever heard of a fairy who gives you a choice like that?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: fairy · What happens: hear, give · To what, where: choice, you

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 1556 «The Blue Fairy Book, Princess Cabbage-Stalk, part 53: Cabbage-Stalk becomes Sunbeam, and a sleepy princess meets a shepherd» 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	Who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 heard	nsubj
2	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	3 heard	advmod
3	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 fairy	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 fairy	det
6	fairy	fairy	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 heard	obl
7	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 gives	nsubj
8	gives	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 fairy	acl:relcl
9	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 gives	iobj
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 choice	det
11	choice	choice	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 gives	obj
12	like	like	ADP	_	13 that	case
13	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	11 choice	nmod
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 heard	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hear	past					ever	of a fairy	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of fairy=Stimulus
2	give	present	a fairy	a choice	you			like that	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient choice=Theme

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

Some fairy in a book did it, innit

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	2 fairy	det
2	fairy	fairy	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 did	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 book	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 book	det
5	book	book	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 fairy	nmod
6	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 did	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 innit	punct
9	innit	innit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 did	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	some fairy in a book	book					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality
2	innit	infinitive	some fairy in a book not said here						tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Loads of old stories do it, it's like a rule

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Loads	load	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 do	nsubj
2	of	of	ADP	_	4 stories	case
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 stories	amod
4	stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Loads	nmod
5	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 do	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 rule	punct
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 rule	nsubj
9	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 rule	cop
10	like	like	ADP	_	12 rule	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 rule	det
12	rule	rule	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 do	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	present	Loads of old stories	it					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality
2	is	present	it					like a rule	tree rules

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Loads of old stories have fairies doing exactly that, it's like a rule in every fairy tale ever

The tree, 19 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Loads	load	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 have	nsubj
2	of	of	ADP	_	4 stories	case
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 stories	amod
4	stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Loads	nmod
5	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	fairies	fairy	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 have	obj
7	doing	do	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 fairies	acl
8	exactly	exactly	ADV	_	9 that	advmod
9	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	7 doing	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 rule	punct
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 rule	nsubj
12	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 rule	cop
13	like	like	ADP	_	15 rule	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 rule	det
15	rule	rule	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 have	parataxis
16	in	in	ADP	_	19 tale	case
17	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	19 tale	det
18	fairy	fairy	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 tale	compound
19	tale	tale	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 rule	nmod
20	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	19 tale	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	present	Loads of old stories	fairies			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fairy=Patient
2	do	gerund	fairies not said here	fairies			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Eventuality
3	is	present	it		every fairy tale	like a rule	tree rules

Option 4

The enchanter does it all the time

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 enchanter	det
2	enchanter	enchanter	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 does	nsubj
3	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 does	obj
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 time	det:predet
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 time	det
7	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 does	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	present	the enchanter	it			time		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality

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