Test 8 · ★ · Old Indian Legends, The White Duck, part 1: the Queen is t…

Why did the Queen think bathing was okay?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: Queen, bathing · What happens: think, be · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 1712 «Old Indian Legends, The White Duck, part 1: the Queen is tricked into the pond and becomes a White Duck» 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	5 think	advmod
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 think	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Queen	det
4	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 think	nsubj
5	think	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	bathing	bathing	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 okay	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 okay	cop
8	okay	okay	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 think	ccomp
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 think	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past · do-support	the Queen						vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	bathing					okay property	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

She thought no harm could come of it, since the old woman seemed so kind and sweet

The tree, 17 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 thought	nsubj
2	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 harm	det
4	harm	harm	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 come	nsubj
5	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 come	aux
6	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 thought	ccomp
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 it	case
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 come	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 seemed	punct
10	since	since	SCONJ	_	14 seemed	mark
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 woman	det
12	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 woman	amod
13	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 seemed	nsubj
14	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 thought	parataxis
15	so	so	ADV	_	16 kind	advmod
16	kind	kind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 seemed	xcomp
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 sweet	cc
18	sweet	sweet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 kind	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	She		vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	come	could	no harm	of it	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme of it=Initial_Location
3	seem	past	the old woman	kind property	vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme

Option 2

She felt the water was safe

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 felt	nsubj
2	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 water	det
4	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 safe	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 safe	cop
6	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 felt	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	feel	past	She						vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
2	is	past	the water					safe property	tree rules

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

She thought no harm could come of it

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 thought	nsubj
2	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 harm	det
4	harm	harm	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 come	nsubj
5	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 come	aux
6	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 thought	ccomp
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 it	case
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 come	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	She						vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	come	could	no harm					of it	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme of it=Initial_Location

Option 4

She was sure it was fine

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	3 sure	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sure	cop
3	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 fine	expl
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 fine	cop
6	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 sure	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	She					sure property	tree rules
2	is	past	She not said here					fine property	tree rules

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