Test 3 · ★ · Fairy Tales, Prince Narcissus and the Princess Potentilla,…

why'd the Queen stash her own kid away, though?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: Queen · What happens: stash · To what, where: own kid

This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 1879 «Fairy Tales, Prince Narcissus and the Princess Potentilla, part 1: Narcissus finds the hidden princess and falls in love» 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	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	5 stash	advmod
2	'd	'd	PUNCT	_	4 Queen	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Queen	det
4	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 stash	nsubj
5	stash	stash	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 kid	nmod:poss
7	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 kid	amod
8	kid	kid	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 stash	obj
9	away	away	ADV	_	5 stash	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 though	punct
11	though	though	SCONJ	_	5 stash	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 stash	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stash	present	the Queen	Queen's own kid				away property	vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kid=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

she wanted her hidden, nah

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 wanted	nsubj
2	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 hidden	nmod:poss
4	hidden	hidden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 wanted	xcomp
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 nah	punct
6	nah	nah	INTJ	_	2 wanted	discourse

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	she					hidden property	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Pivot

Option 2

she didn't want the court seeing her

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 want	nsubj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 want	aux
3	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 want	advmod
4	want	want	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 court	det
6	court	court	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 want	obj
7	seeing	see	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 want	xcomp
8	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 seeing	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not want	past · do-support	she	the court					tree rules
2	see not said to happen	gerund	the court not said here	her = she					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus

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

she was scared people would like her more

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 scared	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 scared	cop
3	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 like	nsubj
5	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 like	aux
6	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 scared	ccomp
7	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 like	obj
8	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	6 like	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	she					scared property	tree rules
2	like	would	people	her = she					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot she=Theme

Option 4

she thought she was too ugly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 thought	nsubj
2	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 ugly	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 ugly	cop
5	too	too	ADV	_	6 ugly	advmod
6	ugly	ugly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 thought	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	she						vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	she					ugly property	tree rules

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