Test 6 · ★ · d'Aulnoy's Fairy Tales, The Blue Bird, part 5: the spy ove…
Mazilla's well sketchy, innit? What did she want?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: Mazilla · What happens: be, innit, want
This is test 6 · ★ 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
Sentence 1: Mazilla's well sketchy, innit?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mazilla | Mazilla | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 sketchy | nsubj |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 sketchy | cop |
| 3 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 sketchy | advmod |
| 4 | sketchy | sketchy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 innit | punct |
| 6 | innit | innit | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 sketchy | discourse |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 sketchy | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Mazilla | sketchy, well property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | innit | infinitive | 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.
Sentence 2: What did she want?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 want | obj |
| 2 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 want | aux |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 want | nsubj |
| 4 | want | want | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 want | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | want | past · do-support | Mazilla | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot what=Theme |
The options
Option 1
She wanted him to leave the palace
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 | 2 wanted | nsubj |
| 2 | wanted | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 wanted | obj |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 leave | mark |
| 5 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 wanted | xcomp |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 palace | det |
| 7 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 leave | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | want | past | She | him = he | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | leave not said to happen | to-infinitive | him = he not said here | the palace | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent palace=Theme |
Option 2
She wanted him to wed her goddaughter so she could rule the whole kingdom through him
The tree, 16 words
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 | 2 wanted | nsubj |
| 2 | wanted | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 wanted | obj |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 wed | mark |
| 5 | wed | wed | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 wanted | xcomp |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 goddaughter | nmod:poss |
| 7 | goddaughter | goddaughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 wed | obj |
| 8 | so | so | ADV | _ | 11 rule | advmod |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 rule | nsubj |
| 10 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 rule | aux |
| 11 | rule | rule | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 wed | advcl |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 kingdom | det |
| 13 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 kingdom | amod |
| 14 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 rule | obj |
| 15 | through | through | ADP | _ | 16 him | case |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 rule | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | want | past | She | him = he | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | wed not said to happen | to-infinitive | him = he not said here | her goddaughter | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent goddaughter=Patient | ||||
| 3 | rule | could | she | the whole kingdom | through him = he | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kingdom=Theme |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
She wanted him to wed her goddaughter
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 | 2 wanted | nsubj |
| 2 | wanted | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 wanted | obj |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 wed | mark |
| 5 | wed | wed | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 wanted | xcomp |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 goddaughter | nmod:poss |
| 7 | goddaughter | goddaughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 wed | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | want | past | She | him = he | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | wed not said to happen | to-infinitive | him = he not said here | her goddaughter | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent goddaughter=Patient |
Option 4
She wanted him to wed her goddaughter Turritella and give up his crown
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 | 2 wanted | nsubj |
| 2 | wanted | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 wanted | obj |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 wed | mark |
| 5 | wed | wed | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 wanted | xcomp |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 goddaughter | nmod:poss |
| 7 | goddaughter | goddaughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 wed | obj |
| 8 | Turritella | Turritella | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 goddaughter | appos |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 give | cc |
| 10 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 wed | conj |
| 11 | up | up | ADP | _ | 10 give | compound:prt |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 crown | nmod:poss |
| 13 | crown | crown | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 give | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | want | past | She | him = he | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | wed not said to happen | to-infinitive | him = he not said here | her goddaughter | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent goddaughter=Patient | ||||
| 3 | give up | infinitive | him = he not said here | Turritella's crown | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crown=Source | ||||
| 4 | crown | Turritella | nom crown «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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