Test 3 · ★ · Orange Fairy Book, Prince Désiré and Princess Zizi, part 6…

wait so Zizi was like sixteen, and locked up in a fruit for ten years??

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, Zizi · What happens: wait, be, lock up · To what, where: fruit

This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 1564 «Orange Fairy Book, Prince Désiré and Princess Zizi, part 61: the last orange holds a thirsty canary, then Titty comes to the well» 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	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	so	so	ADV	_	6 sixteen	advmod
3	Zizi	Zizi	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 sixteen	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 sixteen	cop
5	like	like	ADP	_	6 sixteen	case
6	sixteen	sixteen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	1 wait	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 locked	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 locked	cc
9	locked	lock	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 wait	parataxis
10	up	up	ADP	_	9 locked	compound:prt
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 fruit	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 fruit	det
13	fruit	fruit	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 locked	obl
14	for	for	ADP	_	16 years	case
15	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	16 years	nummod
16	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 locked	obl
17	??	??	PUNCT	_	1 wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here				vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	past	Zizi			like sixteen	tree rules
3	lock up	participle		a fruit	year		vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient

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

yeah, the witch kept her in that orange the whole time until Désiré came along and cracked it open

The tree, 19 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 kept	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 kept	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 witch	det
4	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 kept	nsubj
5	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 kept	obj
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 orange	case
8	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	9 orange	det
9	orange	orange	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 kept	obl
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 time	det
11	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 time	amod
12	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 kept	obl:unmarked
13	until	until	SCONJ	_	15 came	mark
14	Désiré	Désiré	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 came	nsubj
15	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 kept	advcl
16	along	along	ADV	_	15 came	advmod
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 cracked	cc
18	cracked	crack	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 kept	conj
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 cracked	obj
20	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 cracked	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	past	the witch	her = she	that orange	time		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent she=Theme in orange=Location
2	come along	past	Désiré				along property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	crack	past	the witch not said here	orange			open property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

nah, she was in a tree for ten years

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	7 tree	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 tree	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 tree	cop
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 tree	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 tree	det
7	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	for	for	ADP	_	10 years	case
9	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 years	nummod
10	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 tree	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	she			a tree	year		tree rules

Option 3

yeah, the witch locked her in a box

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 locked	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 locked	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 witch	det
4	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 locked	nsubj
5	locked	lock	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 locked	obj
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 box	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 box	det
9	box	box	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 locked	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lock	past	the witch	her = she		a box			vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

yeah, the witch kept her in that orange the whole time

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 kept	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 kept	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 witch	det
4	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 kept	nsubj
5	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 kept	obj
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 orange	case
8	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	9 orange	det
9	orange	orange	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 kept	obl
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 time	det
11	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 time	amod
12	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 kept	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	past	the witch	her = she		that orange	time		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent she=Theme in orange=Location

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