Test 6 · ★ · Fairy Book, Prince Mirliflor: the bees steal the twelve ma…

Did the Queen get her twelve ladies back at the end?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: Queen · What happens: get · To what, where: twelve ladies

This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 1876 «Fairy Book, Prince Mirliflor: the bees steal the twelve maidens, and Rosanella returns to marry the Prince» 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	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 get	aux
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Queen	det
3	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 get	nsubj
4	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 ladies	nmod:poss
6	twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 ladies	nummod
7	ladies	lady	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 get	obj
8	back	back	ADV	_	4 get	advmod
9	at	at	ADP	_	11 end	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 end	det
11	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 back	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 get	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	past · do-support	the Queen	Queen's twelve ladies					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer lady=Stimulus

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

Nah, the Queen never saw them again

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 saw	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Queen	det
4	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 saw	nsubj
5	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	6 saw	advmod
6	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 saw	obj
8	again	again	ADV	_	6 saw	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not see	past	the Queen	them = they			again		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus

Option 2

Yeah, she got them back by spring

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 got	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 got	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 got	nsubj
4	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 got	obj
6	back	back	ADV	_	4 got	advmod
7	by	by	ADP	_	8 spring	case
8	spring	spring	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 got	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get back	past	she	them = they			spring		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Nah, Paridamie just said soon she wouldn't miss them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 said	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	Paridamie	Paridamie	PROPN	Number=Sing	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	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 said	advmod
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 miss	nsubj
8	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 miss	aux
9	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 miss	advmod
10	miss	miss	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 said	ccomp
11	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 miss	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Paridamie					soon property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	not miss	would	Paridamie	them = they					vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus

Option 4

Nah, the bees ate them all and Paridamie only said sorry in the end

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 ate	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 bees	det
4	bees	bee	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 ate	nsubj
5	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 ate	obj
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 them	nmod:unmarked
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 said	cc
9	Paridamie	Paridamie	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 said	nsubj
10	only	only	ADV	_	11 said	advmod
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 ate	conj
12	sorry	sorry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 said	xcomp
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 end	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 end	det
15	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 said	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	past	the bees	them = they					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient
2	say speech: apologize	past	Paridamie				in the end	sorry property	vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent in end=Manner

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