Test 2 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Swineherd, part 1: a poor Prince is…

Ngl, why did the Princess hate the rose?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Ngl, Princess · What happens: do, hate · To what, where: rose

This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 1733 «Andersen's Tales, The Swineherd, part 1: a poor Prince is refused by the Princess and becomes a swineherd» 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	Ngl	Ngl	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 did	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Ngl	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 did	advmod
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Princess	det
6	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 hate	nsubj
7	hate	hate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 did	ccomp
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 rose	det
9	rose	rose	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 hate	obj
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	Ngl						tree rules
2	hate	present	the Princess	the rose					vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer rose=Stimulus

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 · ✓ the right answer

she thought it was fake

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	she						vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	it					fake property	tree rules

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

she thought the rose was a trick by the Prince to cheat her

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	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 rose	det
4	rose	rose	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 trick	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 trick	cop
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 trick	det
7	trick	trick	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 thought	ccomp
8	by	by	ADP	_	10 Prince	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Prince	det
10	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 trick	nmod
11	to	to	PART	_	12 cheat	mark
12	cheat	cheat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 thought	ccomp
13	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 cheat	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	she			vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	is a	past	the rose	a trick	by the Prince	tree rules
3	cheat	to-infinitive		her = she		vn cheat-10.6.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Source

Option 3

she thought the rose was an insult from the poor

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	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 rose	det
4	rose	rose	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 insult	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 insult	cop
6	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 insult	det
7	insult	insult	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 thought	ccomp
8	from	from	ADP	_	10 poor	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 poor	det
10	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 thought	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	she			the poor			vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is a	past	the rose	a insult					tree rules

Option 4

it was not real gold

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 gold	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 gold	cop
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 gold	advmod
4	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 gold	amod
5	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is a	past	it	real gold					tree rules

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