Test 12 · ★ · Fairy Tales, The Blue Bird, part 6: Fiordelisa climbs, is…

why did the King not hear her crying, the lazy git?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: King · What happens: not hear, cry · To what, where: her

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 1869 «Fairy Tales, The Blue Bird, part 6: Fiordelisa climbs, is carried by doves, and sells the bracelets» 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 hear	advmod
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 hear	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 King	det
4	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 hear	nsubj
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 hear	advmod
6	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 crying	obj
8	crying	cry	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 hear	xcomp
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 git	punct
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 git	det
11	lazy	lazy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 git	amod
12	git	git	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 crying	conj
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 hear	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not hear	past · do-support	the King						vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	cry speech: express	gerund	the King not said here	her = she					vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Topic

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

he was out for the count

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 out	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 out	cop
3	out	out	ADV	_	root	root
4	for	for	ADP	_	6 count	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 count	det
6	count	count	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 out	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	he					for the count; out property	tree rules

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

he took a sleeping draught

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 took	nsubj
2	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 draught	det
4	sleeping	sleeping	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 draught	amod
5	draught	draught	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 took	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	past	he	a sleeping draught					vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent draught=Theme

Option 3

he always takes a big sleeping draught before bed, every night

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 takes	nsubj
2	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	3 takes	advmod
3	takes	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 draught	det
5	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 draught	amod
6	sleeping	sleeping	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 draught	compound
7	draught	draught	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 takes	obj
8	before	before	ADP	_	9 bed	case
9	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 takes	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 night	punct
11	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	12 night	det
12	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 takes	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	present	he	a big sleeping draught		bed	night	always property	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent draught=Theme before bed=Destination

Option 4

he was asleep

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 asleep	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 asleep	cop
3	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

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