Test 6 · ★ · Fairy Tales, Prince Featherhead, part 20: the fish sell we…

Celandine wanted her gifts back? Bare random, innit?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Celandine, Bare random · What happens: want back, gift, innit · To what, where: gifts

This is test 6 · ★ 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

Sentence 1: Celandine wanted her gifts back?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Celandine	Celandine	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 wanted	nsubj
2	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 gifts	nmod:poss
4	gifts	gift	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 wanted	obj
5	back	back	ADV	_	2 wanted	advmod
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 wanted	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want back	past	Celandine	Celandine's gifts					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot gift=Theme
2	gift		Celandine						nom gift «possession transitive»: poss=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.

Sentence 2: Bare random, innit?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Bare	bare	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 random	amod
2	random	random	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 innit	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 random	punct
4	innit	innit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 innit	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	innit	infinitive	Bare random						tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Nah, she asked Saradine to give them to the poor folk in the town

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 asked	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 asked	nsubj
4	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	Saradine	Saradine	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 asked	iobj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 give	mark
7	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 asked	xcomp
8	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 give	iobj
9	to	to	ADP	_	12 folk	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 folk	det
11	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 folk	amod
12	folk	folk	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 give	obl
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 town	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 town	det
15	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 folk	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	past	she		Saradine				vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent saradine=Recipient clause=Topic
2	give not said to happen	to-infinitive	she not said here		them = they			to the poor folk in the town	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Theme to folk=Recipient

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, she asked for them back

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 asked	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 asked	nsubj
4	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 them	case
6	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 asked	obl
7	back	back	ADV	_	4 asked	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ask back speech: ask	past	she					for them = they	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Yeah, she wanted all of them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 wanted	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 wanted	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 wanted	nsubj
4	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 wanted	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 them	case
7	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 all	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	she	all					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot all=Theme

Option 4

Yeah, she asked for them back and then cried all night

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 asked	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 asked	nsubj
4	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 them	case
6	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 asked	obl
7	back	back	ADV	_	4 asked	advmod
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 cried	cc
9	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	10 cried	advmod
10	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 asked	conj
11	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	12 night	det
12	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 cried	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ask back speech: ask	past	she					for them = they	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	cry speech: express	past	she not said here				then; night		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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