Test 3 · ★ · Violet Fairy Book, Prince Rainbow: the Princess wins her p…

Mate, what even was the myrtle thing?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Mate · What happens: be · To what, where: myrtle thing

This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 1707 «Violet Fairy Book, Prince Rainbow: the Princess wins her prince and becomes queen» 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	Mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 thing	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	8 thing	nsubj
4	even	even	ADV	_	8 thing	advmod
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 thing	cop
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 thing	det
7	myrtle	myrtle	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 thing	compound
8	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Mate	conj
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Mate	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	Mate and the myrtle thing	the myrtle thing					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 right answer

A bower sprang up round her to kip

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 bower	det
2	bower	bower	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sprang	nsubj
3	sprang	spring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	up	up	ADP	_	3 sprang	compound:prt
5	round	round	ADP	_	6 her	case
6	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 sprang	obl
7	to	to	PART	_	8 kip	mark
8	kip	kip	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 sprang	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spring up	past	a bower					round her = she	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	kip	to-infinitive	a bower not said here						tree rules

Option 2

A shed popped up near her to nap in

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 shed	det
2	shed	shed	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	popped	pop	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 shed	acl
4	up	up	ADP	_	3 popped	compound:prt
5	near	near	ADP	_	6 her	case
6	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 popped	obl
7	to	to	PART	_	8 nap	mark
8	nap	nap	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 popped	advcl
9	in	in	ADP	_	8 nap	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pop up	participle		a shed not said here				near her = she	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme near she=Location
2	nap	to-infinitive							vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

A whole myrtle forest sprang up round her so she could kip for hours

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 forest	det
2	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 forest	amod
3	myrtle	myrtle	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 forest	compound
4	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sprang	nsubj
5	sprang	spring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	up	up	ADP	_	5 sprang	compound:prt
7	round	round	ADP	_	8 her	case
8	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 sprang	obl
9	so	so	ADV	_	12 kip	advmod
10	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 kip	nsubj
11	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 kip	aux
12	kip	kip	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 sprang	advcl
13	for	for	ADP	_	14 hours	case
14	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 kip	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spring up	past	a whole myrtle forest					round her = she	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	kip	could	forest				hour		tree rules

Option 4

A bower sprang up round her to kip, all green and shady and cosy

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 bower	det
2	bower	bower	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sprang	nsubj
3	sprang	spring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	up	up	ADP	_	3 sprang	compound:prt
5	round	round	ADP	_	6 her	case
6	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 sprang	obl
7	to	to	PART	_	8 kip	mark
8	kip	kip	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 sprang	advcl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 green	punct
10	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	11 green	det
11	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 sprang	parataxis
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 shady	cc
13	shady	shady	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 green	conj
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 cosy	cc
15	cosy	cosy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 green	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spring up	past	a bower					round her = she	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	kip	to-infinitive	a bower not said here						tree rules

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