Test 13 · ★ · Pink Fairy Book, Prince Mirliflor, part 12: the watch fall…

Why did Mirliflor get so embarrassed, like?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Mirliflor · What happens: get

This is test 13 · ★ 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 get	advmod
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 get	aux
3	Mirliflor	Mirliflor	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 get	nsubj
4	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	so	so	ADV	_	6 embarrassed	advmod
6	embarrassed	embarrassed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 get	xcomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 get	punct
8	like	like	ADP	_	4 get	obl
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 get	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	past · do-support	Mirliflor					embarrassed property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

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

He got caught by the Queen

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 caught	nsubj:pass
2	got	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 caught	aux:pass
3	caught	catch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	by	by	ADP	_	6 Queen	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Queen	det
6	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 caught	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	catch	past · passive	the Queen	He					vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

All twelve girls liked him back

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 girls	det
2	twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 girls	nummod
3	girls	girl	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 liked	nsubj
4	liked	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 liked	obj
6	back	back	ADV	_	4 liked	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	like back	past	all twelve girls	him = he					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot he=Theme

Option 3

He had been caught wearing the Queen's own pink ribbon by mistake

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	4 caught	nsubj:pass
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 caught	aux
3	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 caught	aux:pass
4	caught	catch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	wearing	wear	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 caught	xcomp
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Queen	det
7	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 ribbon	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 Queen	case
9	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 ribbon	amod
10	pink	pink	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 ribbon	amod
11	ribbon	ribbon	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 wearing	obj
12	by	by	ADP	_	13 mistake	case
13	mistake	mistake	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 wearing	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	catch	past · perfect · passive		He					tree rules
2	wear	gerund		the Queen's own pink ribbon				by mistake	vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent ribbon=Theme

Option 4

All twelve of the girls at court liked him back and kept following him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	2 twelve	det
2	twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 liked	obl
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 girls	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 girls	det
5	girls	girl	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 liked	obl
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 court	case
7	court	court	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 girls	nmod
8	liked	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 liked	obj
10	back	back	ADV	_	8 liked	advmod
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 kept	cc
12	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 liked	conj
13	following	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	12 kept	xcomp
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 following	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	other	roles by
1	like back	past	all twelve	of the girls at court	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot he=Theme
2	keep	past			tree rules
3	follow	gerund	him = he		vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme

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