Test 3 · ★ · Lang's Fairy Book, Prince Narcissus and the Princess Poten…

mate, how did Potentilla feel when the enchanter started chatting to her?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: mate, enchanter · What happens: feel, start, chat · To what, where: enchanter

This is test 3 · ★ 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	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 feel	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 feel	punct
3	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	6 feel	advmod
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 feel	aux
5	Potentilla	Potentilla	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 feel	nsubj
6	feel	feel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	10 started	advmod
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 enchanter	det
9	enchanter	enchanter	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 started	nsubj
10	started	start	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 feel	conj
11	chatting	chat	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 started	xcomp
12	to	to	ADP	_	13 her	case
13	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 chatting	obl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 feel	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	roles by
1	feel	past · do-support	mate		vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
2	start	past	the enchanter		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	chat speech: other	gerund	the enchanter not said here	enchanter	vn chit_chat-37.6 «NP V»: agent=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

she was well made up and blushing like mad at the enchanter's compliments

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 made	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 made	aux:pass
3	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 made	advmod
4	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	up	up	ADP	_	4 made	compound:prt
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 blushing	cc
7	blushing	blush	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 made	conj
8	like	like	ADP	_	9 mad	case
9	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 blushing	obl
10	at	at	ADP	_	14 compliments	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 enchanter	det
12	enchanter	enchanter	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 compliments	nmod:poss
13	's	's	PART	_	12 enchanter	case
14	compliments	compliment	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 blushing	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	make up	past · passive		she		well property	vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Pivot
2	blush	gerund			the enchanter's compliments	like mad	vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	compliment		the enchanter				nom compliment «communication transitive»: poss=agent

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

she was well gutted

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 gutted	nsubj:pass
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 gutted	aux:pass
3	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 gutted	advmod
4	gutted	gut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	gut	past · passive		she				well property	vn pit-10.7 «NP V NP»: subject=Source

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

she felt quite chuffed

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 felt	nsubj
2	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	quite	quite	ADV	_	4 chuffed	advmod
4	chuffed	chuff	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 felt	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	feel	past	she						vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	chuff	participle	she not said here						tree rules

Option 4

she was buzzing at first but then got really properly fed up with him, honestly

The tree, 15 words

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 buzzing	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 buzzing	aux
3	buzzing	buzz	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 first	case
5	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	3 buzzing	obl
6	but	but	CCONJ	_	11 fed	cc
7	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	11 fed	advmod
8	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 fed	aux
9	really	really	ADV	_	11 fed	advmod
10	properly	properly	ADV	_	11 fed	advmod
11	fed	feed	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 buzzing	conj
12	up	up	ADP	_	11 fed	compound:prt
13	with	with	ADP	_	14 him	case
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 fed	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 honestly	punct
16	honestly	honestly	ADV	_	3 buzzing	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	buzz	past · progressive	she					honestly property	vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Agent at first=Stimulus
2	feed up	past	she not said here				then	with him = he; properly property	vn gorge-39.6 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Agent

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