Test 4 · ★ · Lang's Fairy Book, The Prince and the Doves: the prince es…

The eel said no with her tail, yeah?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: eel · What happens: say · To what, where: no · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 1813 «Lang's Fairy Book, The Prince and the Doves: the prince escapes his father's trap, forgets his bride, and wins her back» 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 eel	det
2	eel	eel	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 said	nsubj
3	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	3 said	obj
5	with	with	ADP	_	7 tail	case
6	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 tail	nmod:poss
7	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 said	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 yeah	punct
9	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	3 said	parataxis
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 said	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the eel	no				with eel's tail	vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent no=Theme with tail=Manner

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

Nah, she shook it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 shook	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 shook	nsubj
4	shook	shake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 shook	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shake	past	she	it					vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent it=Patient

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, she wagged it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 wagged	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 wagged	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 wagged	nsubj
4	wagged	wag	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 wagged	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wag	past	she	it					vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient

Option 3

Nah, she didn't

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 did	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 did	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not do	past	she						vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Nah, no

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	no	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	1 Nah	discourse

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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