Test 6 · ★ · Fairy Tales, Prince Featherhead, part 21: Celandine is sco…

Ngl, what was the old hag's whole deal?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Ngl · What happens: be · To what, where: whole deal

This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 1884 «Fairy Tales, Prince Featherhead, part 21: Celandine is scorned and meets a grumpy old hag» 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	Ngl	Ngl	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 deal	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	10 deal	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 deal	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 hag	det
6	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 hag	amod
7	hag	hag	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 deal	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 hag	case
9	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 deal	amod
10	deal	deal	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Ngl	appos
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Ngl	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	Ngl	the old hag's whole deal					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 · ← Mova's choice

She was grumpy and wore a posh robe

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 grumpy	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 grumpy	cop
3	grumpy	grumpy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 wore	cc
5	wore	wear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 grumpy	conj
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 robe	det
7	posh	posh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 robe	amod
8	robe	robe	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 wore	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	She					grumpy property	tree rules
2	wear	past	She not said here	a posh robe					vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent robe=Theme

Option 2

She was grumpy and nicked the posh robe off Celandine's back in the woods

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 grumpy	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 grumpy	cop
3	grumpy	grumpy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 nicked	cc
5	nicked	nick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 grumpy	conj
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 robe	det
7	posh	posh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 robe	amod
8	robe	robe	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 nicked	obj
9	off	off	ADP	_	12 back	case
10	Celandine	Celandine	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 back	nmod:poss
11	's	's	PART	_	10 Celandine	case
12	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 nicked	obl
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 woods	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 woods	det
15	woods	wood	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 nicked	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	She					grumpy property	tree rules
2	nick	past	She not said here	the posh robe		the woods		off Celandine's back	vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent robe=Theme off back=Source

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

She was grumpy and nicked the posh robe

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 grumpy	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 grumpy	cop
3	grumpy	grumpy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 nicked	cc
5	nicked	nick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 grumpy	conj
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 robe	det
7	posh	posh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 robe	amod
8	robe	robe	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 nicked	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	She					grumpy property	tree rules
2	nick	past	She not said here	the posh robe					vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent robe=Patient

Option 4

She was lonely and sold rags

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 lonely	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 lonely	cop
3	lonely	lonely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 sold	cc
5	sold	sell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 lonely	conj
6	rags	rag	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 sold	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	She					lonely property	tree rules
2	sell	participle	She not said here	rags					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rag=Theme

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