Test 12 · ★ · Pink Fairy Book, Prince Featherhead, part 22: Celandine ge…

Did the old dame let them keep their dresses or what?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: old dame, them · What happens: let, keep · To what, where: them, dresses

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 1885 «Pink Fairy Book, Prince Featherhead, part 22: Celandine gets a white cow, then the Prince finds her and they ride off to the Leafy Palace» 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	5 let	aux
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 dame	det
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 dame	amod
4	dame	dame	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 let	nsubj
5	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 let	obj
7	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 let	xcomp
8	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 dresses	nmod:poss
9	dresses	dress	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 keep	obj
10	or	or	CCONJ	_	11 what	cc
11	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 keep	advcl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 let	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	let	past · do-support	the old dame	them = they					tree rules
2	keep	infinitive	them = they not said here	their dresses					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dress=Theme

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 gave Celandine just enough gay clothes and kept the rest for herself

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 gave	nsubj
2	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	Celandine	celandine	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 gave	obj
4	just	just	ADV	_	7 clothes	advmod
5	enough	enough	ADV	_	7 clothes	advmod
6	gay	gay	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 clothes	amod
7	clothes	clothes	NOUN	Number=Ptan	2 gave	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 kept	cc
9	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 gave	conj
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 rest	det
11	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 kept	obj
12	for	for	ADP	_	13 herself	case
13	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	9 kept	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	past	She	Celandine				gay clothes obl	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent celandine=Theme
2	keep	past	She not said here	the rest				for herself = she	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rest=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

She let them keep most of the dresses

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 let	nsubj
2	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 let	obj
4	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 let	xcomp
5	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	4 keep	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 dresses	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 dresses	det
8	dresses	dress	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 most	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	let	infinitive	She	them = they					tree rules
2	keep	infinitive	them = they not said here	most of the dresses					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent most=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

She gave Celandine just enough gay clothes

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 gave	nsubj
2	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	Celandine	celandine	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 gave	obj
4	just	just	ADV	_	5 enough	advmod
5	enough	enough	ADV	_	2 gave	advmod
6	gay	gay	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 clothes	amod
7	clothes	clothes	NOUN	Number=Ptan	2 gave	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	past	She	Celandine				enough property	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent celandine=Recipient clothes=Theme

Option 4

She took back all the finest gowns

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 took	nsubj
2	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	back	back	ADV	_	2 took	advmod
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 gowns	det:predet
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 gowns	det
6	finest	fine	ADJ	Degree=Sup	7 gowns	amod
7	gowns	gown	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 took	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take back	past	She	all finest gowns					vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gown=Theme

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