Test 4 · ★ · Blue Fairy Book, The Blue Bird: the Frog is Serpentine, an…

Who was the mint lady in the ivory car?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be · To what, where: mint lady, ivory car

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 1691 «Blue Fairy Book, The Blue Bird: the Frog is Serpentine, and the bird cures the King» 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	Who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 lady	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 lady	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 lady	det
4	mint	mint	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 lady	compound
5	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	in	in	ADP	_	9 car	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 car	det
8	ivory	ivory	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 car	compound
9	car	car	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 lady	nmod
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 lady	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the mint lady		the ivory car			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 · ← Mova's choice

The fairy Aglantine, who had been a widow of the court for many long years

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 fairy	det
2	fairy	fairy	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	Aglantine	Aglantine	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 fairy	appos
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 widow	punct
5	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 widow	nsubj
6	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 widow	aux
7	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	9 widow	cop
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 widow	det
9	widow	widow	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 fairy	appos
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 court	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 court	det
12	court	court	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 widow	nmod
13	for	for	ADP	_	16 years	case
14	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 years	amod
15	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 years	amod
16	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 court	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past · perfect	the fairy	a widow				of the court for many long years	tree rules

Option 2

Aunt Aglantine, the sister of the King

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Aunt	aunt	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	Aglantine	Aglantine	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Aunt	appos
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 sister	punct
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 sister	det
5	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Aunt	appos
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 King	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 King	det
8	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 sister	nmod

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

Option 3

Aunt Aglantine, the widow of Diamantino, who had come to take the Prince home

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Aunt	aunt	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	Aglantine	Aglantine	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Aunt	appos
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 widow	punct
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 widow	det
5	widow	widow	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Aunt	conj
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 Diamantino	case
7	Diamantino	Diamantino	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 widow	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 come	punct
9	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 come	nsubj
10	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 come	aux
11	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	1 Aunt	parataxis
12	to	to	PART	_	13 take	mark
13	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 come	advcl
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 home	det
15	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 home	compound
16	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 take	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past · perfect	Aunt and the widow of Diamantino						vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	take	to-infinitive	Aunt and the widow of Diamantino not said here	the Prince home					vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent home=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Aunt Aglantine, the widow of Diamantino

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Aunt	aunt	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	Aglantine	Aglantine	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Aunt	appos
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 widow	punct
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 widow	det
5	widow	widow	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Aunt	conj
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 Diamantino	case
7	Diamantino	Diamantino	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 widow	nmod

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

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