Test 7 · ★ · Fairy Tales, Prince Mannikin, part 27: a little monkey sho…

Was the old woman a proper hag or was she a Fairy in disguise?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: woman · What happens: be · To what, where: old woman, Fairy, disguise

This is test 7 · ★ 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	Was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 woman	cop
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 woman	det
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 woman	amod
4	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 hag	csubj
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 hag	det
6	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 hag	amod
7	hag	hag	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	or	or	CCONJ	_	12 Fairy	cc
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 Fairy	cop
10	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 Fairy	nsubj
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 Fairy	det
12	Fairy	fairy	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 hag	conj
13	in	in	ADP	_	14 disguise	case
14	disguise	disguise	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 Fairy	nmod
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 hag	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the old woman					tree rules
2	is a	past	woman	a Fairy		disguise			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

She was a proper witch, not a Fairy

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	5 witch	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 witch	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 witch	det
4	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 witch	amod
5	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 Fairy	punct
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 Fairy	advmod
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 Fairy	det
9	Fairy	fairy	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 witch	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	She	a proper witch and a Fairy					tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

She was a Fairy, and she was well mad

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	4 Fairy	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 Fairy	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 Fairy	det
4	Fairy	fairy	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 mad	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 mad	cc
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 mad	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 mad	cop
9	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	10 mad	advmod
10	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 Fairy	appos

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	She	a Fairy					tree rules
2	is	past	Fairy					mad, well property	tree rules

Option 3

She was a hag, and she was mad

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	4 hag	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 hag	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 hag	det
4	hag	hag	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 mad	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 mad	cc
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 mad	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 mad	cop
9	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 hag	appos

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	She	a hag					tree rules
2	is	past	hag					mad property	tree rules

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

She was a Fairy, and she was well mad, and she turned into a cat

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	4 Fairy	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 Fairy	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 Fairy	det
4	Fairy	fairy	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 mad	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 mad	cc
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 mad	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 mad	cop
9	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	10 mad	advmod
10	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 Fairy	appos
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 turned	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 turned	cc
13	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 turned	nsubj
14	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 Fairy	parataxis
15	into	into	ADP	_	17 cat	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 cat	det
17	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 turned	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	past	She	a Fairy		tree rules
2	is	past	Fairy		mad, well property	tree rules
3	turn	past	Fairy		into a cat result	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into cat=Result

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