Test 9 · ★ · Fairy Book, The Wounded Lion, part 34: the sister wins the…

Wicked, what did the prince reckon was the best bit?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: prince reckon · What happens: do, be · To what, where: best bit

This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 1645 «Fairy Book, The Wounded Lion, part 34: the sister wins the water of life, then a girl follows a wounded lion» 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	Wicked	wicked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 did	advcl
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 reckon	det
6	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 reckon	compound
7	reckon	reckon	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 bit	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 bit	cop
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 bit	det
10	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	11 bit	amod
11	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obl:unmarked
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past							vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is a	past	the prince reckon	the best bit					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 · ✓ the right answer

her courage and looks

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 courage	nmod:poss
2	courage	courage	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 looks	nsubj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	2 courage	cc
4	looks	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	present	her courage						vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

her hair

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 hair	nmod:poss
2	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

her looks

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 looks	nmod:poss
2	looks	look	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 4

her kindness and wit

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 kindness	nmod:poss
2	kindness	kindness	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 wit	cc
4	wit	wit	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 kindness	conj

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

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