Test 10 · ★ · Lang's Fairy Book, Prince Narcissus and the Princess Poten…

so Potentilla basically dumped the narcissus flowers, why?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Potentilla · What happens: dump · To what, where: narcissus flowers

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1880 «Lang's Fairy Book, Prince Narcissus and the Princess Potentilla, part 17: Grumedan dazzles Potentilla with flowers, frogs and pearls, and Narcissus answers with a nightingale» 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	_	4 dumped	advmod
2	Potentilla	Potentilla	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 dumped	nsubj
3	basically	basically	ADV	_	4 dumped	advmod
4	dumped	dump	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 flowers	det
6	narcissus	narcissus	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 flowers	compound
7	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 dumped	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 why	punct
9	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 dumped	conj
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 dumped	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dump	past	Potentilla	the narcissus flowers				basically property	vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent flower=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

they were the wrong sort, mate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 sort	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 sort	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 sort	det
4	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 sort	amod
5	sort	sort	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 mate	punct
7	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sort	vocative

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	they	the wrong sort				mate vocative	tree rules

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

they weren't the colour she liked

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 colour	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 colour	cop
3	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 colour	advmod
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 colour	det
5	colour	colour	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 liked	nsubj
7	liked	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 colour	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is a	past	they	the colour					tree rules
2	like	past	she	the colour not said here					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot colour=Theme

Option 3

they weren't the sort she wanted because she'd already promised the frogs a bath

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 sort	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 sort	cop
3	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 sort	advmod
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 sort	det
5	sort	sort	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 wanted	nsubj
7	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 sort	acl:relcl
8	because	because	SCONJ	_	12 promised	mark
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 promised	nsubj
10	'd	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 promised	aux
11	already	already	ADV	_	12 promised	advmod
12	promised	promise	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 wanted	ccomp
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 frogs	det
14	frogs	frog	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 promised	obj
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 bath	det
16	bath	bath	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 promised	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	not is a	past	they	the sort		tree rules
2	want	past	she	the sort not said here		tree rules
3	promise speech: promise	past · perfect	she	a bath	the frogs	vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent frog=Goal bath=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

they weren't the sort she wanted

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 sort	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 sort	cop
3	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 sort	advmod
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 sort	det
5	sort	sort	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 wanted	nsubj
7	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 sort	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is a	past	they	the sort					tree rules
2	want	past	she	the sort not said here					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot sort=Theme

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