Test 9 · ★ · Fairy Gifts, Sylvia and the Flower Fairy, part 15: Sylvia…
So Sylvia wanted to nab Cynthia's gift at first?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Sylvia, Cynthia · What happens: want, nab, gift · To what, where: gift
This is test 9 · ★ 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 wanted | advmod |
| 2 | Sylvia | Sylvia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 wanted | nsubj |
| 3 | wanted | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 nab | mark |
| 5 | nab | nab | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 wanted | xcomp |
| 6 | Cynthia | Cynthia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 gift | nmod:poss |
| 7 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 6 Cynthia | case |
| 8 | gift | gift | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 nab | obj |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 first | case |
| 10 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 5 nab | obl |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 wanted | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | want | past | Sylvia | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | nab not said to happen | to-infinitive | Sylvia not said here | Cynthia's gift | vn prosecute-33.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gift=Patient | ||||
| 3 | gift | Cynthia | nom gift «possession transitive»: poss=agent |
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
yeah, she begged for it at first, but then she saw it wasn't cool at all
The tree, 17 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 begged | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 begged | punct |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 begged | nsubj |
| 4 | begged | beg | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 cool | advcl |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 it | case |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 begged | obl |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 first | case |
| 8 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 4 begged | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 saw | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 saw | cc |
| 11 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 13 saw | advmod |
| 12 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 saw | nsubj |
| 13 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 begged | conj |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 cool | nsubj |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 cool | cop |
| 16 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 cool | advmod |
| 17 | cool | cool | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 18 | at | at | ADP | _ | 19 all | case |
| 19 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 17 cool | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | beg speech: request | past | she | for it | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V PP.Topic»: agent=Agent for it=Topic | ||||
| 2 | see | past | she | then | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | not is | past | it | all | cool property | tree rules |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
yeah, she wanted it till she saw it
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 wanted | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 wanted | punct |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 wanted | nsubj |
| 4 | wanted | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 wanted | obj |
| 6 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 8 saw | mark |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 saw | nsubj |
| 8 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 wanted | advcl |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 saw | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | want | past | she | it | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot it=Theme | ||||
| 2 | see | past | she | it | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
yeah, till she saw it wasn't cool
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 5 saw | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 saw | punct |
| 3 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 5 saw | mark |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 saw | nsubj |
| 5 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 cool | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 cool | cop |
| 8 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 cool | advmod |
| 9 | cool | cool | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 saw | ccomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | she | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | not is | past | it | cool property | tree rules |
Option 4
yeah, till she saw it wasn't cool and then she told the Fairy off
The tree, 15 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 5 saw | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 saw | punct |
| 3 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 5 saw | mark |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 saw | nsubj |
| 5 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 cool | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 cool | cop |
| 8 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 cool | advmod |
| 9 | cool | cool | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 saw | ccomp |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 told | cc |
| 11 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 13 told | advmod |
| 12 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 told | nsubj |
| 13 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 saw | conj |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Fairy | det |
| 15 | Fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 told | obj |
| 16 | off | off | ADP | _ | 13 told | compound:prt |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | she | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | not is | past | it | cool property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | tell off speech: assert | past | she | the Fairy | then | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent fairy=Recipient |
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