Test 7 · ★ · Blue Fairy Book, The Blue Bird: the Frog is Serpentine, an…

What was Serpentine's gripe about marrying Saphir?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: gripe · What happens: be, marry · To what, where: gripe, Saphir

This is test 7 · ★ 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 gripe	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 gripe	cop
3	Serpentine	Serpentine	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 gripe	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 Serpentine	case
5	gripe	gripe	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	about	about	SCONJ	_	7 marrying	mark
7	marrying	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 gripe	acl
8	Saphir	Saphir	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 marrying	obj
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 gripe	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		Serpentine's gripe					tree rules
2	marry	gerund	Serpentine's gripe not said here	Saphir					vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent saphir=Patient

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

She wouldn't wed him unless the fairies said her birth was fair, and she wanted her own parents at the wedding first

The tree, 23 words

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 wed	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 wed	aux
3	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 wed	advmod
4	wed	wed	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 wed	obj
6	unless	unless	SCONJ	_	9 said	mark
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 fairies	det
8	fairies	fairy	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 said	nsubj
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 wed	advcl
10	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 birth	nmod:poss
11	birth	birth	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 fair	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 fair	cop
13	fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 said	ccomp
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 wanted	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 wanted	cc
16	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 wanted	nsubj
17	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 wed	advcl
18	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 parents	nmod:poss
19	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 parents	amod
20	parents	parent	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 wanted	obj
21	at	at	ADP	_	23 wedding	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 wedding	det
23	wedding	wedding	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 wanted	obl
24	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	17 wanted	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not wed	would	She	him = he			vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient
2	say speech: assert a condition, not said to happen	past	the fairies				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	is	past	her birth			fair property	tree rules
4	want	past	she	her own parents	the wedding	first property	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot parent=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

She wouldn't wed him unless the fairies said her birth was fair

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 wed	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 wed	aux
3	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 wed	advmod
4	wed	wed	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 wed	obj
6	unless	unless	SCONJ	_	9 said	mark
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 fairies	det
8	fairies	fairy	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 said	nsubj
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 wed	advcl
10	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 birth	nmod:poss
11	birth	birth	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 fair	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 fair	cop
13	fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 said	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not wed	would	She	him = he		vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient
2	say speech: assert a condition, not said to happen	past	the fairies			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	is	past	her birth		fair property	tree rules

Option 3

She refused to marry him until her family name was known to the whole court

The tree, 15 words

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 refused	nsubj
2	refused	refuse	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 marry	mark
4	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 refused	xcomp
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 marry	obj
6	until	until	SCONJ	_	11 known	mark
7	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 name	nmod:poss
8	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 name	compound
9	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 known	nsubj:pass
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 known	aux:pass
11	known	know	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 marry	advcl
12	to	to	ADP	_	15 court	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 court	det
14	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 court	amod
15	court	court	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 known	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	refuse	past	She			vn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	not marry	to-infinitive	She not said here	him = he		vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient
3	know	past · passive		her family name	to the whole court	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus
4	name		her = she			nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent

Option 4

She wouldn't marry him unless the old King gave his blessing to their union

The tree, 15 words

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 marry	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 marry	aux
3	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 marry	advmod
4	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 marry	obj
6	unless	unless	SCONJ	_	10 gave	mark
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 King	det
8	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 King	amod
9	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 gave	nsubj
10	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 marry	advcl
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 blessing	nmod:poss
12	blessing	blessing	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 gave	obj
13	to	to	ADP	_	15 union	case
14	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 union	nmod:poss
15	union	union	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 gave	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	not marry	would	She	him = he		vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient
2	give a condition, not said to happen	past	the old King	King's blessing	their union	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent blessing=Theme to union=Recipient
3	bless		King			nom blessing «act transitive»: poss=agent

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