Test 11 · ★ · Pink Fairy Book, Prince Mirliflor, part 12: the watch fall…

What was that pink thing on the babies' necks?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be · To what, where: pink thing, necks

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 1875 «Pink Fairy Book, Prince Mirliflor, part 12: the watch falls into the sea and the fairies choose a new Queen» 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 thing	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 thing	cop
3	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 thing	det
4	pink	pink	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 thing	amod
5	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	on	on	ADP	_	10 necks	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 babies	det
8	babies	baby	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 necks	nmod:poss
9	'	's	PART	_	8 babies	case
10	necks	neck	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 thing	nmod
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 thing	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		that pink thing		the babies's necks			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

A small pink rose painted carefully on each baby's throat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 pink	det
2	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 pink	amod
3	pink	pink	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 painted	nsubj:pass
4	rose	rise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 painted	aux:pass
5	painted	paint	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	carefully	carefully	ADV	_	5 painted	advmod
7	on	on	ADP	_	11 throat	case
8	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	9 baby	det
9	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 throat	nmod:poss
10	's	's	PART	_	9 baby	case
11	throat	throat	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 painted	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	paint	past · passive		a small pink		each baby's throat		carefully property	vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: subject=Theme on throat=Destination

Option 2

A small blue star

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 star	det
2	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 star	amod
3	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 star	amod
4	star	star	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

A pink ribbon with a little silver bell tied on tightly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 ribbon	det
2	pink	pink	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 ribbon	amod
3	ribbon	ribbon	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	with	with	ADP	_	8 bell	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 bell	det
6	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 bell	amod
7	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 bell	compound
8	bell	bell	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 ribbon	nmod
9	tied	tie	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 bell	acl
10	on	on	ADP	_	11 tightly	case
11	tightly	tightly	ADV	_	9 tied	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tie	participle		a little silver bell not said here					vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle PP»: agent=Patient on tightly=Co-Patient

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

A little pink rose

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 rose	det
2	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 rose	amod
3	pink	pink	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 rose	amod
4	rose	rose	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

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