Test 4 · ★ · Pink Fairy Book, Prince Mirliflor, part 12: the watch fall…

Did the fish really have nine kids?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: fish · What happens: do, have · To what, where: nine kids

This is test 4 · ★ 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	Did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 fish	det
3	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 have	nsubj
4	really	really	ADV	_	5 have	advmod
5	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Did	ccomp
6	nine	nine	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 kids	nummod
7	kids	kid	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 have	obj
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past							tree rules
2	have	present	the fish	nine kids					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kid=Patient

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

Yeah, he said he had nine little ones waiting at home

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 said	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 said	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 had	nsubj
6	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 said	ccomp
7	nine	nine	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 ones	nummod
8	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 ones	amod
9	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 had	obj
10	waiting	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 ones	acl
11	at	at	ADP	_	12 home	case
12	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 waiting	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	he			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	have	past	he	nine little ones		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Patient
3	wait	gerund	nine little ones not said here		home	vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at home=Location

Option 2

No, he just said that to fool the cat into staying for supper

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	5 said	ccomp
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 said	nsubj
4	just	just	ADV	_	5 said	advmod
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	8 fool	mark
7	to	to	PART	_	8 fool	mark
8	fool	fool	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 said	ccomp
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 cat	det
10	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 fool	obj
11	into	into	SCONJ	_	12 staying	mark
12	staying	stay	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 fool	advcl
13	for	for	ADP	_	14 supper	case
14	supper	supper	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 staying	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	he			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	fool	to-infinitive		the cat		vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cat=Patient
3	stay	gerund			for supper	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, he said so, nine little ones

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 said	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 said	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	so	so	ADV	_	7 nine	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 nine	punct
7	nine	nine	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 ones	nummod
8	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 ones	amod
9	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 said	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	he						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Yeah, he had seven kids

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 had	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 had	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 had	nsubj
4	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 kids	nummod
6	kids	kid	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 had	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	he	seven kids					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kid=Patient

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