Test 2 · ★ · d'Aulnoy's Fairy Tales, The Blue Bird, part 5: the spy ove…

Wait, so the spy was faking her snores the whole time, innit?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, spy, faking · What happens: wait, fake, snore, innit · To what, where: her

This is test 2 · ★ 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	Wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 faking	punct
3	so	so	ADV	_	7 faking	advmod
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 spy	det
5	spy	spy	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 faking	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 faking	aux
7	faking	fake	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 snores	csubj
8	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 faking	obj
9	snores	snore	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Wait	advcl
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 time	det
11	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 time	amod
12	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 snores	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 innit	punct
14	innit	innit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Wait	conj
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	fake	past · progressive	the spy	her = she		vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient
3	snore	present	faking		time	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	innit	infinitive	you 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 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, she pretended to be asleep and listened

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 pretended	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 pretended	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 pretended	nsubj
4	pretended	pretend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	7 asleep	mark
6	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 asleep	cop
7	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 pretended	xcomp
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 listened	cc
9	listened	listen	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 asleep	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	pretend	past	she		tree rules
2	is	to-infinitive	she not said here	asleep property	tree rules
3	listen	participle	she not said here		vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent

Option 2

Yeah, she pretended to be asleep for hours and then reported everything to the Queen

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 pretended	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 pretended	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 pretended	nsubj
4	pretended	pretend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	7 asleep	mark
6	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 asleep	cop
7	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 pretended	xcomp
8	for	for	ADP	_	9 hours	case
9	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 pretended	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 reported	cc
11	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	12 reported	advmod
12	reported	report	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 pretended	conj
13	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	12 reported	obj
14	to	to	ADP	_	16 Queen	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 Queen	det
16	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 reported	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	pretend	past	she			hour		tree rules
2	is	to-infinitive	she not said here				asleep property	tree rules
3	report	past	she not said here	everything	the Queen	then		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent everything=Topic to queen=Recipient

Option 3

Yeah, she was hiding under the bed all night

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 hiding	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 hiding	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 hiding	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 hiding	aux
5	hiding	hide	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	under	under	ADP	_	8 bed	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 bed	det
8	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 hiding	obl
9	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	10 night	det
10	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 hiding	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hide	past · progressive	she			the bed	night		vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent under bed=Location

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Yeah, she pretended to be asleep and listened to every word the Queen said

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 pretended	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 pretended	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 pretended	nsubj
4	pretended	pretend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 said	ccomp
5	to	to	PART	_	7 asleep	mark
6	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 asleep	cop
7	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 pretended	xcomp
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 listened	cc
9	listened	listen	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 asleep	conj
10	to	to	ADP	_	12 word	case
11	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	12 word	det
12	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 pretended	obl
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 Queen	det
14	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 said	nsubj
15	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	pretend	past	she	to every word	tree rules
2	is	to-infinitive	she not said here	asleep property	tree rules
3	listen	participle	she not said here		vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
4	say speech: assert	past	the Queen		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic

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