Test 11 · ★ · d'Aulnoy's Fairy Tales, The Blue Bird, part 5: the spy ove…

Was Turritella, like, actually pretty?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Turritella · What happens: be

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 1868 «d'Aulnoy's Fairy Tales, The Blue Bird, part 5: the spy overhears, the bird is cut, the King is saved» 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	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	Turritella	Turritella	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Was	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 actually	punct
4	like	like	ADP	_	6 actually	case
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 like	punct
6	actually	actually	ADV	_	1 Was	advmod
7	pretty	pretty	ADV	_	6 actually	advmod
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Was	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	past	Turritella					actually property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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 · ← Mova's choice

the Enchanter thought her really lovely, but the King thought her frightful

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Enchanter	det
2	Enchanter	Enchanter	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 thought	nsubj
3	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 lovely	nmod:poss
5	really	really	ADV	_	6 lovely	advmod
6	lovely	lovely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 thought	ccomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 thought	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	11 thought	cc
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 King	det
10	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 thought	nsubj
11	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 thought	conj
12	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 frightful	nmod:poss
13	frightful	frightful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 thought	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	the Enchanter						vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	think speech: other	past	the King					frightful property	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

the Enchanter thought her really frightful and wicked, so he refused her

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Enchanter	det
2	Enchanter	Enchanter	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 thought	nsubj
3	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 frightful	nmod:poss
5	really	really	ADV	_	6 frightful	advmod
6	frightful	frightful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 thought	xcomp
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 wicked	cc
8	wicked	wicked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 frightful	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 refused	punct
10	so	so	ADV	_	12 refused	advmod
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 refused	nsubj
12	refused	refuse	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 thought	conj
13	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 refused	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	the Enchanter					frightful property	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	refuse	past	he	Enchanter					vn reject-77.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

the Enchanter thought her really frightful

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Enchanter	det
2	Enchanter	Enchanter	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 thought	nsubj
3	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 frightful	nmod:poss
5	really	really	ADV	_	6 frightful	advmod
6	frightful	frightful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 thought	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	the Enchanter					frightful property	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

the Enchanter thought her very lovely

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Enchanter	det
2	Enchanter	Enchanter	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 thought	nsubj
3	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 thought	obj
5	very	very	ADV	_	6 lovely	advmod
6	lovely	lovely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 thought	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	the Enchanter	her = she				lovely property	vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot she=Theme

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