Test 6 · ★ · Fairy Tales, The Princess in the Chest, part 10: the king…

Was the chest thing the king's idea or hers?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · What happens: be · To what, where: chest thing

This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 1621 «Fairy Tales, The Princess in the Chest, part 10: the king breaks his word, the princess dies, and the sentinels vanish one by one» 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	Was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 thing	cop
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 thing	det
3	chest	chest	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 thing	compound
4	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 idea	csubj
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 king	det
6	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 idea	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 king	case
8	idea	idea	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	or	or	CCONJ	_	10 hers	cc
10	hers	her	PRON	Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 idea	conj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 idea	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the chest thing					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

He made it up, and she agreed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 made	nsubj
2	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 made	obj
4	up	up	ADP	_	2 made	compound:prt
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 agreed	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 agreed	cc
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 agreed	nsubj
8	agreed	agree	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 made	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make up	past	He	it					vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Pivot
2	agree speech: agree	past	she						vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

She offered three choices to him, and after much thought he picked the chest as the least bad

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 offered	nsubj
2	offered	offer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 choices	nummod
4	choices	choice	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 offered	obj
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 him	case
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 offered	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 thought	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 thought	cc
9	after	after	ADP	_	10 much	case
10	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 thought	obl
11	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 offered	parataxis
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 picked	nsubj
13	picked	pick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 thought	ccomp
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 chest	det
15	chest	chest	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 picked	obj
16	as	as	SCONJ	_	19 bad	mark
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 bad	det
18	least	least	ADJ	Degree=Sup	19 bad	advmod
19	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 picked	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	roles by
1	offer	past	She	three choices	him = he		vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent choice=Theme to he=Goal
2	think speech: other	past				after much	vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	pick	past	he	the chest			vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chest=Patient

Option 3

She offered three options, and in the end he picked the plain chest herself

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 offered	nsubj
2	offered	offer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 options	nummod
4	options	option	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 offered	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 picked	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 picked	cc
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 end	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 end	det
9	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 picked	obl
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 picked	nsubj
11	picked	pick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 offered	conj
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 chest	det
13	plain	plain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 chest	amod
14	chest	chest	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 picked	obj
15	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	11 picked	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	offer	past	She	three options					vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent option=Theme
2	pick	past	he	the plain chest			in the end	herself = she obl	vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chest=Patient

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

She offered three, and he picked the chest

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 offered	nsubj
2	offered	offer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 offered	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 picked	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 picked	cc
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 picked	nsubj
7	picked	pick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 offered	conj
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 chest	det
9	chest	chest	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 picked	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	offer	past	She	three					vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent three=Theme
2	pick	past	he	the chest					vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chest=Patient

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