Test 8 · ★ · Fairy Gifts, Sylvia and the Flower Fairy, part 15: Sylvia…

Cynthia's the pleaser, so was she happy?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Cynthia · What happens: be · To what, where: pleaser

This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 1878 «Fairy Gifts, Sylvia and the Flower Fairy, part 15: Sylvia visits three princesses and reports on each» 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	Cynthia	Cynthia	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 pleaser	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 pleaser	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 pleaser	det
4	pleaser	pleaser	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 happy	punct
6	so	so	ADV	_	9 happy	advmod
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 happy	cop
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 happy	nsubj
9	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 pleaser	parataxis
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 pleaser	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Cynthia	the pleaser					tree rules
2	is	past	Cynthia					happy property	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 · ← Mova's choice

nah, she was a total flirt, not chuffed at all, and her lovers left in a huff

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	7 flirt	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 flirt	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 flirt	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 flirt	det
6	total	total	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 flirt	amod
7	flirt	flirt	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 chuffed	punct
9	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 chuffed	advmod
10	chuffed	chuff	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 flirt	acl
11	at	at	ADP	_	12 all	case
12	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	10 chuffed	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 left	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 left	cc
15	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 lovers	nmod:poss
16	lovers	lover	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 left	nsubj
17	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 flirt	parataxis
18	in	in	ADP	_	20 huff	case
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 huff	det
20	huff	huff	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 left	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	past	she	a total flirt			tree rules
2	not chuff	participle		a total flirt not said here	all		tree rules
3	leave	past	her lovers			in a huff result	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in huff=Result

Option 2

yeah, proper chuffed, she loved it all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 chuffed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 chuffed	punct
3	proper	properly	ADV	_	4 chuffed	advmod
4	chuffed	chuff	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 loved	advcl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 chuffed	punct
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 loved	nsubj
7	loved	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 loved	obj
9	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 it	det

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chuff	participle	she not said here					properly property	tree rules
2	love	past	she	it					vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

nah, she was a total flirt, not chuffed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	7 flirt	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 flirt	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 flirt	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 flirt	det
6	total	total	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 flirt	amod
7	flirt	flirt	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 chuffed	punct
9	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 chuffed	advmod
10	chuffed	chuff	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 flirt	acl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	she	a total flirt					tree rules
2	not chuff	participle		a total flirt not said here					tree rules

Option 4

nah, she was a bit of a moaner, mate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 bit	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 bit	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 bit	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 bit	det
6	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 moaner	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 moaner	det
9	moaner	moaner	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 bit	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 mate	punct
11	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 bit	vocative

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	she	a bit				of a moaner; mate vocative	tree rules

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