Test 8 · ★ · Lang's fairy book, Prince Narcissus and the Princess Poten…

Did Melinette just ignore Grumedan being rude?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Melinette, Grumedan · What happens: ignore, be

This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 1882 «Lang's fairy book, Prince Narcissus and the Princess Potentilla: Melinette saves Potentilla from poison and traps Grumedan» 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	Did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 ignore	aux
2	Melinette	Melinette	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 ignore	nsubj
3	just	just	ADV	_	4 ignore	advmod
4	ignore	ignore	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	Grumedan	Grumedan	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 rude	nsubj
6	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 rude	cop
7	rude	rude	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 ignore	ccomp
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 ignore	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ignore	past · do-support	Melinette						vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	is	gerund	Grumedan					rude property	tree rules

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 · ✓ the right answer

Nah, she taught him a lesson, proper strict

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 taught	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 taught	nsubj
4	taught	teach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 taught	obj
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 lesson	det
7	lesson	lesson	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 taught	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 taught	punct
9	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 strict	amod
10	strict	strict	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 taught	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	teach speech: other	past	she	a lesson	him = he				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient lesson=Topic

Option 2

Yeah, she let him off with a warning

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 let	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 let	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 let	nsubj
4	let	let	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 let	obj
6	off	off	ADP	_	4 let	compound:prt
7	with	with	ADP	_	9 warning	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 warning	det
9	warning	warning	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 let	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	let off	past	she	him = he				with a warning	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Nah, she turned him into a frog instead

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 turned	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 turned	nsubj
4	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 turned	obj
6	into	into	ADP	_	8 frog	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 frog	det
8	frog	frog	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 turned	obl
9	instead	instead	ADV	_	4 turned	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	past	she	him = he				into a frog result; instead property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent he=Theme into frog=Result

Option 4

Nah, she taught him a lesson, proper strict, and locked him up for ages in a glass ball

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 taught	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 taught	nsubj
4	taught	teach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 taught	obj
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 lesson	det
7	lesson	lesson	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 taught	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 strict	punct
9	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 strict	amod
10	strict	strict	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 lesson	amod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 locked	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 locked	cc
13	locked	lock	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 taught	conj
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 locked	obj
15	up	up	ADP	_	13 locked	compound:prt
16	for	for	ADP	_	17 ages	case
17	ages	age	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 locked	obl
18	in	in	ADP	_	21 ball	case
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 ball	det
20	glass	glass	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 ball	compound
21	ball	ball	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 locked	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	teach speech: other	past	she	a lesson	him = he				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient lesson=Topic
2	lock up	past	she not said here	him = he		a glass ball	for ages		vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient

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