Test 10 · ★ · Yellow Fairy Book, The Black Fairy, part 34: a bridge of c…

why did the girl's magic stop working at the river?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: magic stop, girl · What happens: do, work, stop · To what, where: magic stop

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1710 «Yellow Fairy Book, The Black Fairy, part 34: a bridge of clouds, a duck, a vanishing church and a boar» 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	2 did	advmod
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 girl	det
4	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 stop	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 girl	case
6	magic	magic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 stop	amod
7	stop	stop	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 did	obj
8	working	work	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 stop	acl
9	at	at	ADP	_	11 river	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 river	det
11	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 working	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	do	past		the girl's magic stop		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stop=Eventuality
2	work	gerund	the girl's magic stop not said here		at the river	vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at river=Theme
3	stop		the girl			nom stop «event transitive»: poss=agent

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 said her time had not come yet, so the magic failed

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 said	nsubj
2	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 time	nmod:poss
4	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 come	nsubj
5	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 come	aux
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 come	advmod
7	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 said	ccomp
8	yet	yet	ADV	_	7 come	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 failed	punct
10	so	so	ADV	_	13 failed	advmod
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 magic	det
12	magic	magic	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 failed	nsubj
13	failed	fail	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 said	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	she		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	not come	past · perfect	her time	yet	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	fail	past	the magic		vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

she was too tired to try

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 tired	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 tired	cop
3	too	too	ADV	_	4 tired	advmod
4	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 try	mark
6	try	try	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 tired	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	she					tired property	tree rules
2	try	to-infinitive	she not said here						vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

she said her time had not come yet

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 said	nsubj
2	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 time	nmod:poss
4	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 come	nsubj
5	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 come	aux
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 come	advmod
7	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 said	ccomp
8	yet	yet	ADV	_	7 come	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	she						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	not come	past · perfect	her time				yet		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

she said her time had not come yet and her power had waned

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 said	nsubj
2	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 time	nmod:poss
4	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 come	nsubj
5	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 come	aux
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 come	advmod
7	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 said	ccomp
8	yet	yet	ADV	_	7 come	advmod
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 waned	cc
10	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 power	nmod:poss
11	power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 waned	nsubj:pass
12	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 waned	aux
13	waned	wane	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 come	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	she			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	not come	past	her time		yet	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	wane	past · perfect · passive		her power		tree rules

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