Test 13 · ★ · Fairy Book, Master and Pupil: a clever boy turns into a ho…

so did the girl sell her gold ring to the wizard?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: girl · What happens: sell · To what, where: gold ring, wizard

This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 1650 «Fairy Book, Master and Pupil: a clever boy turns into a horse and a pole-cat ends a wizard» 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	so	so	ADV	_	5 sell	advmod
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 sell	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 girl	det
4	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sell	nsubj
5	sell	sell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 ring	nmod:poss
7	gold	gold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 ring	amod
8	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sell	obj
9	to	to	ADP	_	11 wizard	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 wizard	det
11	wizard	wizard	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sell	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 sell	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sell	past · do-support	the girl	girl's gold ring	the wizard				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent ring=Theme to wizard=Recipient

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

nah, she held onto it and then hid it under her pillow in the castle tower all night

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 held	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 held	nsubj
4	held	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	onto	onto	ADP	_	6 it	case
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 held	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 hid	cc
8	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	9 hid	advmod
9	hid	hide	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 held	conj
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 hid	obj
11	under	under	ADP	_	13 pillow	case
12	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 pillow	nmod:poss
13	pillow	pillow	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 hid	obl
14	in	in	ADP	_	17 tower	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 tower	det
16	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 tower	compound
17	tower	tower	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 hid	obl
18	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	19 night	det
19	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 held	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hold	past	she			it	night		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	hide	past	she not said here	it		her pillow	then	in the castle tower	vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent it=Patient under pillow=Location

Option 2

yep, she did

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yep	yep	INTJ	_	4 did	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yep	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	she						vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

yeah, she traded it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 traded	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 traded	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 traded	nsubj
4	traded	trade	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 traded	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	trade	past	she	it					vn exchange-13.6.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

nah, she held onto it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 held	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 held	nsubj
4	held	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	onto	onto	ADP	_	6 it	case
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 held	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hold	past	she			it			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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