Test 11 · ★ · Lang's Fairy Book, Prince Narcissus and the Princess Poten…

yeah, Melinette did a Prince voice to trick her, that's dodgy, why'd she do that?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: Melinette, that · What happens: do, trick, be · To what, where: Prince voice, Melinette, that

This is test 11 · ★ 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	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 did	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yeah	punct
3	Melinette	Melinette	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 voice	det
6	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 voice	compound
7	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obj
8	to	to	PART	_	9 trick	mark
9	trick	trick	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 voice	acl
10	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 trick	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 dodgy	punct
12	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	14 dodgy	nsubj
13	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 dodgy	cop
14	dodgy	dodgy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 did	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 do	punct
16	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	19 do	advmod
17	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 do	aux
18	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 do	nsubj
19	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 dodgy	conj
20	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	19 do	obj
21	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	do	past	Melinette	a Prince voice		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent voice=Eventuality
2	trick	to-infinitive	Melinette not said here	Melinette		vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient
3	is	present	that		dodgy property	tree rules
4	do	would	Melinette	that		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Eventuality

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

to keep her hidden feelings safe from the enchanter, who was clearly a bit of a dick about it all

The tree, 20 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	2 keep	mark
2	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 all	advcl
3	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 feelings	nmod:poss
4	hidden	hidden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 feelings	amod
5	feelings	feeling	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 keep	obj
6	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 keep	xcomp
7	from	from	ADP	_	9 enchanter	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 enchanter	det
9	enchanter	enchanter	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 keep	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 bit	punct
11	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 bit	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 bit	cop
13	clearly	clearly	ADV	_	15 bit	advmod
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 bit	det
15	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 enchanter	appos
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 dick	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 dick	det
18	dick	dick	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 bit	nmod
19	about	about	ADP	_	20 it	case
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 dick	nmod
21	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	to-infinitive		her hidden feelings		the enchanter		safe property	vn forbid-64.4 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer feeling=Beneficiary from enchanter=Eventuality
2	is a	past	the enchanter	a bit				of a dick about dick; clearly property	tree rules

Option 2

so the Prince could be the one who spoke and the enchanter would not get to kiss her hand

The tree, 19 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	so	so	ADV	_	7 one	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Prince	det
3	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 one	nsubj
4	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 one	aux
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 one	cop
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 one	det
7	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 spoke	nsubj
9	spoke	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 one	acl:relcl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 get	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 enchanter	det
12	enchanter	enchanter	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 get	nsubj
13	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 get	aux
14	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	15 get	advmod
15	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 spoke	conj
16	to	to	PART	_	17 kiss	mark
17	kiss	kiss	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 get	xcomp
18	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 hand	nmod:poss
19	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 kiss	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	is a	could	the Prince	the one	tree rules
2	speak speech: other	past	the one		vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	not get	would	the enchanter		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	kiss	to-infinitive	the enchanter not said here	enchanter's hand	vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Co-Agent

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

to keep her hidden feelings safe

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	2 keep	mark
2	keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 feelings	nmod:poss
4	hidden	hidden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 feelings	amod
5	feelings	feeling	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 keep	obj
6	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 keep	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	to-infinitive		her hidden feelings				safe property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent feeling=Theme

Option 4

to stop her blushing in public

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	2 stop	mark
2	stop	stop	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 blushing	nmod:poss
4	blushing	blushing	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 stop	obj
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 public	case
6	public	public	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 stop	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stop	to-infinitive		her blushing		public			vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality blushing=Eventuality

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