Test 8 · ★ · Fairy Tales, The Enchanted Lion: the girl cuts the princes…

Mate, was the girl scared the giant had lied to her?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Mate girl, giant · What happens: be, scare, lie · To what, where: Mate girl, girl

This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 1646 «Fairy Tales, The Enchanted Lion: the girl cuts the princess's hair and frees the prince» 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	Mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 girl	compound
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Mate	punct
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 girl	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 girl	det
5	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 scared	nsubj
6	scared	scare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 giant	det
8	giant	giant	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 lied	nsubj
9	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 lied	aux
10	lied	lie	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 scared	ccomp
11	to	to	ADP	_	12 her	case
12	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 lied	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 scared	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	is a	past		the Mate girl		tree rules
2	scare	past	the Mate girl			tree rules
3	lie	past · perfect	the giant		girl	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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

Nah, she wasn't scared at all, she just thought he'd be angry with her later on

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 scared	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 scared	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 scared	cop
5	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 scared	advmod
6	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 all	case
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 scared	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 thought	punct
10	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 thought	nsubj
11	just	just	ADV	_	12 thought	advmod
12	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 scared	conj
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 angry	nsubj
14	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 angry	aux
15	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	16 angry	cop
16	angry	angry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 thought	ccomp
17	with	with	ADP	_	19 later	case
18	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 later	nmod:poss
19	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	16 angry	obl
20	on	on	ADP	_	12 thought	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	not is	past	she	all	scared property	tree rules
2	think on speech: other	past	she			vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is	would	he		angry property	tree rules

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Yeah, she was scared he'd tricked her and cried all the way down the mountain

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 scared	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 scared	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 scared	cop
5	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 tricked	nsubj:pass
7	'd	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 tricked	aux
8	tricked	trick	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 scared	conj
9	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 tricked	obj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 cried	cc
11	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 scared	conj
12	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	14 way	det:predet
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 way	det
14	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 cried	obj
15	down	down	ADP	_	17 mountain	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 mountain	det
17	mountain	mountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 cried	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	she		scared property	tree rules
2	trick	past · perfect · passive		he		tree rules
3	cry speech: express	past	she not said here	all way	down the mountain	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Topic

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, she was scared he'd tricked her

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 scared	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 scared	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 scared	cop
5	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 tricked	nsubj:pass
7	'd	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 tricked	aux
8	tricked	trick	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 scared	conj
9	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 tricked	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	she					scared property	tree rules
2	trick	past · perfect · passive		he					tree rules

Option 4

Nah, she knew he was honest all along

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 knew	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 knew	nsubj
4	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 honest	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 honest	cop
7	honest	honest	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 knew	ccomp
8	all	all	ADV	_	9 along	advmod
9	along	along	ADV	_	4 knew	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	know	past	she					along property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	is	past	he					honest property	tree rules

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