Test 11 · ★ · Indian Fairy Tales, The Prince and the Vizier's Son: a cle…

Was the princess sorry for being mean to the vizier's son?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be · To what, where: princess

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 1854 «Indian Fairy Tales, The Prince and the Vizier's Son: a clever trick, a cruel princess punished, and a happy ending» 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	Was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 princess	cop
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 princess	det
3	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sorry	csubj
4	sorry	sorry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	for	for	SCONJ	_	7 mean	mark
6	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 mean	cop
7	mean	mean	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 sorry	advcl
8	to	to	ADP	_	12 son	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 vizier	det
10	vizier	vizier	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 son	nmod:poss
11	's	's	PART	_	10 vizier	case
12	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 mean	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 sorry	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the princess					tree rules
2	is	gerund						to the vizier's son; mean 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 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, she cried and said sorry

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 cried	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 cried	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 cried	nsubj
4	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 said	cc
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 cried	conj
7	sorry	sorry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 said	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cry speech: express	past	she						vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: apologize	past	she not said here					sorry property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

Option 2

Nah, she laughed at him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 laughed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 laughed	nsubj
4	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 him	case
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 laughed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	laugh	past	she					at him = he	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Yeah, she said sorry, a bit

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	sorry	sorry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 said	xcomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 bit	punct
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 bit	det
8	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 said	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: apologize	past	she	a bit				sorry property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Nah, she never said sorry and kept on being mean to him after

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 said	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 said	nsubj
4	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	5 said	advmod
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	sorry	sorry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 said	xcomp
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 kept	cc
8	kept	keep	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 said	conj
9	on	on	ADP	_	11 mean	case
10	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 mean	cop
11	mean	mean	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 kept	xcomp
12	to	to	ADP	_	13 him	case
13	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 mean	obl
14	after	after	ADP	_	8 kept	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	other	roles by
1	not say speech: apologize	past	she		sorry property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	keep after	participle	she not said here			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	is	gerund	she not said here	him = he	mean property	tree rules

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