Test 9 · ★ · Fairy Book, Prince Mirliflor: the bees steal the twelve ma…

Were Sylvain and Jocosa's parents mates?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Sylvain · What happens: be

This is test 9 · ★ 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	Were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	Sylvain	Sylvain	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Were	nsubj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 mates	cc
4	Jocosa	Jocosa	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 parents	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 Jocosa	case
6	parents	parent	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 mates	nmod:poss
7	mates	mate	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 Sylvain	conj
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Were	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	past	Sylvain and Jocosa's parents's mates						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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, they shared the old farm

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 shared	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 shared	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 shared	nsubj
4	shared	share	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 farm	det
6	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 farm	amod
7	farm	farm	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 shared	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	share	past	they	the old farm					tree rules

Option 2

Nah, they were beefing over a stolen cow from long ago at the market

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 beefing	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 beefing	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 beefing	aux
5	beefing	beef	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	over	over	ADP	_	9 cow	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 cow	det
8	stolen	steal	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 cow	amod
9	cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 beefing	obl
10	from	from	ADP	_	11 long	case
11	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	12 ago	advmod
12	ago	ago	ADV	_	9 cow	advmod
13	at	at	ADP	_	15 market	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 market	det
15	market	market	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 beefing	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	beef	past · progressive	they			the market		over a stolen cow	tree rules
2	steal	participle							vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

Nah, they had a bad spat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 had	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 had	nsubj
4	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 spat	det
6	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 spat	amod
7	spat	spat	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 had	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	they	a bad spat					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spat=Patient

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Nah, they were beefing over an ancient feud

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 beefing	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 beefing	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 beefing	aux
5	beefing	beef	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	over	over	ADP	_	9 feud	case
7	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 feud	det
8	ancient	ancient	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 feud	amod
9	feud	feud	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 beefing	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	beef	past · progressive	they			a ancient feud			tree rules

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