Test 3 · ★ · Fairy Tales, Prince Featherhead, part 20: the fish sell we…

Wait, who was the mint Fairy looking after the fam?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, mint Fairy · What happens: wait, be, look · To what, where: mint Fairy

This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 1883 «Fairy Tales, Prince Featherhead, part 20: the fish sell well, Celandine comes to the valley, Featherhead ignores her» 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	Wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 Fairy	punct
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 Fairy	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 Fairy	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Fairy	det
6	mint	mint	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 Fairy	compound
7	Fairy	fairy	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Wait	obl
8	looking	look	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 Fairy	acl
9	after	after	ADP	_	11 fam	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 fam	det
11	fam	fam	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 looking	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is a	past		the mint Fairy		tree rules
3	look	gerund	the mint Fairy not said here		after the fam	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

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 · ← Mova's choice

the old nurse who had raised the royal children at court

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 nurse	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 nurse	amod
3	nurse	nurse	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 raised	nsubj:pass
5	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 raised	aux
6	raised	raise	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 nurse	acl:relcl
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 children	det
8	royal	royal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 children	amod
9	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 raised	obj
10	at	at	ADP	_	11 court	case
11	court	court	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 raised	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	raise	past · perfect · passive		the old nurse		court			vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme child=Destination

Option 2

the wicked Fairy who lived in the Thorny Hills

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Fairy	det
2	wicked	wicked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 Fairy	amod
3	Fairy	fairy	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 lived	nsubj
5	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 Fairy	acl:relcl
6	in	in	ADP	_	9 Hills	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Hills	det
8	Thorny	Thorny	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 Hills	compound
9	Hills	Hill	PROPN	Number=Plur	5 lived	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	past	the wicked Fairy			the Thorny Hills			vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in hill=Location

Option 3

the Witch of the Dark Marsh

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Witch	det
2	Witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	6 Marsh	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Marsh	det
5	Dark	Dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 Marsh	compound
6	Marsh	Marsh	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Witch	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

the Fairy of the Beech-Woods

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Fairy	det
2	Fairy	fairy	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	7 Woods	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Woods	det
5	Beech	Beech	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 Woods	compound
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 Beech	punct
7	Woods	Woods	PROPN	Number=Plur	2 Fairy	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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