Test 4 · ★ · The Blue Fairy Book, Princess Cabbage-Stalk, part 53: Cabb…

So the fairy gave her a muff? Like, a fancy hand warmer?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: fairy · What happens: give · To what, where: muff, her

This is test 4 · ★ 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

Sentence 1: So the fairy gave her a muff?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	So	so	ADV	_	4 gave	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 fairy	det
3	fairy	fairy	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 gave	nsubj
4	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 gave	iobj
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 muff	det
7	muff	muff	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 gave	obj
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 gave	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	past	the fairy	a muff	her = she				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient muff=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.

Sentence 2: Like, a fancy hand warmer?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Like	like	INTJ	_	6 warmer	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Like	punct
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 hand	det
4	fancy	fancy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 hand	amod
5	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 warmer	obl:unmarked
6	warmer	warm	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 warmer	punct

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

The options

Option 1 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, but the white side made her good, not pretty

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	7 made	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 made	punct
3	but	but	CCONJ	_	7 made	cc
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 side	det
5	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 side	amod
6	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 made	nsubj
7	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 made	obj
9	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 made	xcomp
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 pretty	punct
11	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 pretty	advmod
12	pretty	pretty	ADV	_	7 made	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	past	the white side	her = she				good, pretty property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset she=Product

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Yeah, and it's from the fairy who made her choose, though she kept it warm for years

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	12 choose	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 fairy	punct
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 fairy	cc
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 fairy	nsubj
5	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 fairy	cop
6	from	from	ADP	_	8 fairy	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 fairy	det
8	fairy	fairy	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 choose	nsubj
9	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 made	nsubj
10	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 fairy	acl:relcl
11	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 made	obj
12	choose	choose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 kept	punct
14	though	though	SCONJ	_	16 kept	mark
15	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 kept	nsubj
16	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 choose	advcl
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 kept	obj
18	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 kept	xcomp
19	for	for	ADP	_	20 years	case
20	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 kept	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	it			from the fairy	tree rules
2	make	past	the fairy	fairy			vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Product
3	choose	infinitive	the fairy				vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	keep	past	fairy	it	year	warm property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 3

Yeah, a fancy warmer, but she only ever wears it on the coldest winter nights

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 warmer	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 warmer	punct
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 warmer	det
4	fancy	fancy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 warmer	amod
5	warmer	warm	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 wears	punct
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	11 wears	cc
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 wears	nsubj
9	only	only	ADV	_	11 wears	advmod
10	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	11 wears	advmod
11	wears	wear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 warmer	conj
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 wears	obj
13	on	on	ADP	_	17 nights	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 nights	det
15	coldest	cold	ADJ	Degree=Sup	17 nights	amod
16	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 nights	compound
17	nights	night	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 wears	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wear	present	she	it			ever; night		vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 4

Yeah, but the yellow side made her pretty, not good

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	7 made	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 made	punct
3	but	but	CCONJ	_	7 made	cc
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 side	det
5	yellow	yellow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 side	amod
6	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 made	nsubj
7	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 made	obj
9	pretty	pretty	ADV	_	7 made	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 good	punct
11	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 good	advmod
12	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 made	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	past	the yellow side	her = she				pretty property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset she=Product

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