Test 13 · ★ · Fairy Tales, Prince Mannikin, part 27: a little monkey sho…

Did the Fairies sort it out straight away, or what?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: Fairies · What happens: sort out · To what, where: it

This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 1890 «Fairy Tales, Prince Mannikin, part 27: a little monkey shows the Prince a rock of gold, and the Princess Sabella is found to have no heart» 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=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 Fairies	aux
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Fairies	det
3	Fairies	fairy	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 sort	nsubj
4	sort	sort	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 sort	obj
6	out	out	ADP	_	4 sort	compound:prt
7	straight	straight	ADV	_	8 away	advmod
8	away	away	ADV	_	4 sort	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 what	punct
10	or	or	CCONJ	_	11 what	cc
11	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 sort	conj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 sort	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sort out	present	the Fairies	it				away property	vn classify-29.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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

Yeah, they fixed it, but it took ages

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 fixed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 fixed	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 fixed	nsubj
4	fixed	fix	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 fixed	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 took	punct
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	9 took	cc
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 took	nsubj
9	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 fixed	conj
10	ages	age	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 took	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fix	past	they	it					vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent it=Patient
2	take	past	it	ages					vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent age=Theme

Option 2

Nah, they argued for ages and went home

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 argued	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 argued	nsubj
4	argued	argue	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 ages	case
6	ages	age	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 argued	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 went	cc
8	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 argued	conj
9	home	home	ADV	_	8 went	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	argue speech: disagree	past	they				for ages		vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	go	past	they not said here					home property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Nah, they found she had no heart and got worried

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 found	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 found	nsubj
4	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 had	nsubj
6	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 found	ccomp
7	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	8 heart	det
8	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 had	obj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 got	cc
10	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 found	conj
11	worried	worried	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 got	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	find	past	they			vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	have	past	she	no heart		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heart=Patient
3	get	past	they not said here		worried property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

Option 4

Yeah, straight away, mate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 away	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 away	punct
3	straight	straight	ADV	_	4 away	advmod
4	away	away	ADV	_	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 away	punct
6	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 away	vocative

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

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