Test 9 · ★ · Danish Fairy and Folk Tales, Maiden Bright-eye: the duck's…

Why'd the duck even bother with the posh rooms if she hated the ugly sister?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: duck · What happens: hate · To what, where: posh rooms, ugly sister

This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 1663 «Danish Fairy and Folk Tales, Maiden Bright-eye: the duck's secret and the wicked sister's end» 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 duck	advmod
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 duck	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 duck	det
4	duck	duck	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	even	even	ADV	_	6 bother	advmod
6	bother	both	ADV	Degree=Cmp	4 duck	advmod
7	with	with	ADP	_	10 rooms	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 rooms	det
9	posh	posh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 rooms	amod
10	rooms	room	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 bother	obl
11	if	if	SCONJ	_	13 hated	mark
12	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 hated	nsubj
13	hated	hate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 rooms	acl:relcl
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 sister	det
15	ugly	ugly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 sister	amod
16	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 hated	iobj
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 duck	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hate	past	duck	the posh rooms not said here	the ugly sister				vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sister=Stimulus

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

The fine chambers were locked and she had no key to enter

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 chambers	det
2	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 chambers	amod
3	chambers	chamber	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 locked	nsubj:pass
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 locked	aux:pass
5	locked	lock	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 had	cc
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 had	nsubj
8	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 locked	conj
9	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	10 key	det
10	key	key	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 had	obj
11	to	to	PART	_	12 enter	mark
12	enter	enter	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 key	acl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	lock	past · passive		the fine chambers	vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
2	have	past	she	no key	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent key=Patient
3	enter	to-infinitive	she not said here	no key not said here	vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

She was told by the king to stay in the kitchen with the cook

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	3 told	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 told	aux:pass
3	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	by	by	ADP	_	6 king	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 king	det
6	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 told	obl
7	to	to	PART	_	8 stay	mark
8	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 told	xcomp
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 kitchen	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 kitchen	det
11	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 stay	obl
12	with	with	ADP	_	14 cook	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 cook	det
14	cook	cook	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 stay	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past · passive	the king	She					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent subject=Recipient clause=Topic
2	stay not said to happen	to-infinitive	She not said here			the kitchen		with the cook	vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in kitchen=Location

Option 3

She wanted the drain

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 wanted	nsubj
2	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 drain	det
4	drain	drain	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 wanted	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	She	the drain					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot drain=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

She couldn't stand her

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	4 stand	nsubj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 stand	aux
3	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 stand	advmod
4	stand	stand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 stand	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not stand	could	She	her = she					vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1663-pg5615-part52/t9/