Test 9 · ★ · Yellow Fairy Book, Prince Peerless, part 54: the Princess…

The Princess's dress was all frilly and old-fashioned, yeah?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: dress · What happens: be

This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 1557 «Yellow Fairy Book, Prince Peerless, part 54: the Princess is turned into a grasshopper, and the Prince refuses the Fairy's offer» 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Princess	det
2	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 dress	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 Princess	case
4	dress	dress	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 frilly	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 frilly	cop
6	all	all	ADV	_	7 frilly	advmod
7	frilly	frilly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 fashioned	cc
9	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 fashioned	amod
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 old	punct
11	fashioned	fashioned	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 frilly	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 yeah	punct
13	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	7 frilly	discourse
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 frilly	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the Princess's dress					all, frilly property	tree rules
2	be		the Princess's dress not said here						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 · ← Mova's choice

Yeah, all frills

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 frills	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 frills	det
4	frills	frill	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 2

Nah, the Princess had a plain grey gown and the Fairy had a veil

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 had	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Princess	det
4	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 had	nsubj
5	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 gown	det
7	plain	plain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 gown	amod
8	grey	grey	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 gown	amod
9	gown	gown	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 had	obj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 had	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 Fairy	det
12	Fairy	Fairy	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 had	nsubj
13	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 had	conj
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 veil	det
15	veil	veil	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 had	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	the Princess	a plain grey gown					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gown=Patient
2	have	past	the Fairy	a veil					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent veil=Patient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Nah, the old woman had a ruff, the Princess had green crape

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 had	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 woman	det
4	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 woman	amod
5	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 had	nsubj
6	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 had	advcl
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 ruff	det
8	ruff	ruff	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 had	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 had	punct
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Princess	det
11	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 had	nsubj
12	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 crape	amod
14	crape	crape	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 had	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	the old woman	a ruff					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ruff=Patient
2	have	past	the Princess	green crape					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crape=Patient

Option 4

No, plain brown

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 brown	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	plain	plain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 brown	amod
4	brown	brown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

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