Test 9 · ★ · d'Aulnoy's Fairy Tales, Fiordelisa, part 2: Fiordelisa is…

What did the courtiers spread about her, innit?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: courtiers · What happens: spread, innit

This is test 9 · ★ 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 spread	obj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 spread	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 courtiers	det
4	courtiers	courtier	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 spread	nsubj
5	spread	spread	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	about	about	ADP	_	7 her	case
7	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 spread	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 innit	punct
9	innit	innit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 spread	conj
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 spread	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spread	past · do-support	the courtiers					about her = she	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent what=Theme about she=Destination
2	innit	infinitive	the courtiers not said here						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 · ← Mova's choice

that she was proud

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	that	that	SCONJ	_	4 proud	mark
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 proud	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 proud	cop
4	proud	proud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	she					proud property	tree rules

Option 2

vain

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	vain	vain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 3

she was vain

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	3 vain	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 vain	cop
3	vain	vain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	she					vain property	tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

that she was vain

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	that	that	SCONJ	_	4 vain	mark
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 vain	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 vain	cop
4	vain	vain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	she					vain property	tree rules

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