Test 4 · ★ · d'Aulnoy's Fairy Tales, Fiordelisa, part 2: Fiordelisa is…

Why'd the shops not sell her no cloth, like?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: shops · What happens: not sell · To what, where: cloth

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 1865 «d'Aulnoy's Fairy Tales, Fiordelisa, part 2: Fiordelisa is hidden away in a tower while the Prince visits» 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	6 sell	advmod
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 sell	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 shops	det
4	shops	shop	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 sell	nsubj
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 sell	advmod
6	sell	sell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 cloth	nmod:poss
8	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	9 cloth	det
9	cloth	cloth	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sell	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 sell	punct
11	like	like	ADP	_	6 sell	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 sell	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not sell	would	the shops	her cloth					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cloth=Theme

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 King said no

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 King	det
2	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 said	nsubj
3	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	no	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	3 said	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the King						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

the Queen said no

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Queen	det
2	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 said	nsubj
3	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	no	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	3 said	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the Queen						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

Option 3

the Queen had told them all to say no

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Queen	det
2	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 told	nsubj
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 told	aux
4	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 told	iobj
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 them	nmod:unmarked
7	to	to	PART	_	8 say	mark
8	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 told	xcomp
9	no	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	8 say	discourse

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past · perfect	the Queen		them = they				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic
2	say speech: assert not said to happen	to-infinitive	the Queen not said here						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

the Queen forbade it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Queen	det
2	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 forbade	nsubj
3	forbade	forbid	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 forbade	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	forbid	past	the Queen	it					vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer it=Theme

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