Test 5 · ★ · pg641 tales, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 56:…

So the youngest sis is gonna be the one who fights?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: youngest sis, one · What happens: be, fight · To what, where: one

This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 1805 «pg641 tales, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 56: a princess becomes a duck, and a girl rides off to serve as a son» 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	So	so	ADV	_	9 one	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 sis	det
3	youngest	young	ADJ	Degree=Sup	4 sis	amod
4	sis	sis	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 one	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 one	cop
6	gonna	gonna	X	Foreign=Yes	9 one	nsubj
7	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 one	cop
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 one	det
9	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
10	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 fights	nsubj
11	fights	fight	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 one	acl:relcl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 one	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the youngest sis	the one					tree rules
2	fight	present	the one						vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=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

Nah, the youngest stays home, because the emperor says she is far too small to fight any devil at all

The tree, 20 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 stays	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 stays	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 youngest	det
4	youngest	young	ADJ	Degree=Sup	5 stays	nsubj
5	stays	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	home	home	ADV	_	5 stays	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 says	punct
8	because	because	SCONJ	_	11 says	mark
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 emperor	det
10	emperor	emperor	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 says	nsubj
11	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 stays	conj
12	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 small	nsubj
13	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 small	cop
14	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	16 small	advmod
15	too	too	ADV	_	16 small	advmod
16	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 says	ccomp
17	to	to	PART	_	18 fight	mark
18	fight	fight	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 small	advcl
19	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	20 devil	det
20	devil	devil	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 fight	obj
21	at	at	ADP	_	22 all	case
22	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	18 fight	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	stay	present	the youngest			home property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	say speech: assert	present	the emperor				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	is	present	she			far, small property	tree rules
4	fight	to-infinitive	she not said here	any devil	all		vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent devil=Co-Agent

Option 2

Yeah, she said she'd cut the devil into bits, and then she rode off on the old white horse without telling her sisters

The tree, 24 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 said	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 cut	nsubj
6	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 cut	aux
7	cut	cut	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 said	ccomp
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 devil	det
9	devil	devil	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 cut	obj
10	into	into	ADP	_	11 bits	case
11	bits	bit	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 cut	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 rode	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 rode	cc
14	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	16 rode	advmod
15	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 rode	nsubj
16	rode	ride	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 said	conj
17	off	off	ADP	_	16 rode	compound:prt
18	on	on	ADP	_	22 horse	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 horse	det
20	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 horse	amod
21	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 horse	amod
22	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 rode	obl
23	without	without	SCONJ	_	24 telling	mark
24	telling	tell	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 rode	advcl
25	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 sisters	nmod:poss
26	sisters	sister	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 telling	iobj

#	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	cut	would	she	the devil		bits			vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: agent=Agent devil=Material into bit=Product
3	ride off	past	devil				then	on the old white horse	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
4	tell speech: assert	gerund	devil not said here		devil's sisters				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent sister=Recipient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, she said she'd cut the devil into bits

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 said	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 said	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 cut	nsubj
6	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 cut	aux
7	cut	cut	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 said	ccomp
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 devil	det
9	devil	devil	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 cut	obj
10	into	into	ADP	_	11 bits	case
11	bits	bit	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 cut	obl

#	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	cut	would	she	the devil		bits			vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: agent=Agent devil=Material into bit=Product

Option 4

Nope, the second sister is going instead

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nope	nope	INTJ	_	7 going	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nope	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 sister	det
4	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	5 sister	amod
5	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 going	nsubj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 going	aux
7	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
8	instead	instead	ADV	_	7 going	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	present · progressive	the second sister					instead property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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