Test 11 · ★ · Wonder Tales from Many Lands, The Story of Ciccu, part 61:…

Why did Ciccu fancy her so much?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Ciccu · What happens: fancy · To what, where: her

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 1672 «Wonder Tales from Many Lands, The Story of Ciccu, part 61: the princess begs Ciccu's purse for a copy» 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 fancy	advmod
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 fancy	aux
3	Ciccu	Ciccu	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 fancy	nsubj
4	fancy	fancy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 fancy	obj
6	so	so	ADV	_	7 much	advmod
7	much	much	ADV	_	4 fancy	advmod
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 fancy	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fancy	past · do-support	Ciccu	her = she					vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=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

she was dead gorgeous, but also very proud and cold

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 gorgeous	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 gorgeous	cop
3	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 gorgeous	amod
4	gorgeous	gorgeous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 proud	punct
6	but	but	CCONJ	_	9 proud	cc
7	also	also	ADV	_	9 proud	advmod
8	very	very	ADV	_	9 proud	advmod
9	proud	proud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 gorgeous	conj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 cold	cc
11	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 gorgeous	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is	past	she	gorgeous property	tree rules
2	be		she not said here		tree rules
3	be		she not said here		tree rules

Option 2

she was dead gorgeous and had the sweetest voice he had ever heard

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 gorgeous	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 gorgeous	cop
3	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 gorgeous	amod
4	gorgeous	gorgeous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 had	cc
6	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 gorgeous	conj
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 voice	det
8	sweetest	sweet	ADJ	Degree=Sup	9 voice	amod
9	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 had	obj
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 heard	nsubj
11	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 heard	aux
12	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	13 heard	advmod
13	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	9 voice	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	she			gorgeous property	tree rules
2	have	past	she not said here	the sweetest voice			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent voice=Patient
3	hear	past · perfect	he	the sweetest voice not said here	ever		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer voice=Stimulus

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

she was dead gorgeous

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 gorgeous	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 gorgeous	cop
3	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 gorgeous	amod
4	gorgeous	gorgeous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	she					gorgeous property	tree rules

Option 4

she was really kind

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 kind	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 kind	cop
3	really	really	ADV	_	4 kind	advmod
4	kind	kind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	she					kind property	tree rules

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