Test 4 · ★ · Violet Fairy Book, Prince Rainbow: the Princess wins her p…

Why'd the lady in the green house give a nut?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: lady · What happens: give · To what, where: nut

This is test 4 · ★ 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	9 give	advmod
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 give	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 lady	det
4	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 give	nsubj
5	in	in	ADP	_	8 house	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 house	det
7	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 house	amod
8	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lady	nmod
9	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 nut	det
11	nut	nut	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 give	obj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 give	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	would	the lady in the green house	a nut					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nut=Theme

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

To keep her safe from the dog

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 keep	mark
2	keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 keep	obj
4	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 keep	xcomp
5	from	from	ADP	_	7 dog	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 dog	det
7	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 keep	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	to-infinitive			her = she			from the dog; safe property	vn forbid-64.4 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer she=Beneficiary from dog=Eventuality

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Only to open when it's urgent

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	3 open	advmod
2	to	to	PART	_	3 open	mark
3	open	open	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	7 urgent	advmod
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 urgent	nsubj
6	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 urgent	cop
7	urgent	urgent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 open	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	open	to-infinitive							vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	present	it					urgent property	tree rules

Option 3

Only to open when it's urgent, otherwise it's bad luck for ages

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	3 open	advmod
2	to	to	PART	_	3 open	mark
3	open	open	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	7 urgent	advmod
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 urgent	nsubj
6	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 urgent	cop
7	urgent	urgent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 open	xcomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 luck	punct
9	otherwise	otherwise	ADV	_	13 luck	advmod
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 luck	nsubj
11	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 luck	cop
12	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 luck	amod
13	luck	luck	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 open	obl
14	for	for	ADP	_	15 ages	case
15	ages	age	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 luck	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	open	to-infinitive					vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	present	it			urgent property	tree rules
3	is a	present	it	bad luck	for ages	otherwise property	tree rules

Option 4

Only to open when it's really urgent, cos she said so twice

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	3 open	advmod
2	to	to	PART	_	3 open	mark
3	open	open	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	8 urgent	advmod
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 urgent	nsubj
6	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 urgent	cop
7	really	really	ADV	_	8 urgent	advmod
8	urgent	urgent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 open	advcl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 said	punct
10	cos	cos	SCONJ	_	12 said	mark
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 said	nsubj
12	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 open	advcl
13	so	so	ADV	_	14 twice	advmod
14	twice	twice	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	12 said	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	open	to-infinitive			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	present	it	urgent property	tree rules
3	say speech: assert	past	she	twice property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

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