Test 3 · ★ · Madame d'Aulnoy's Fairy Tales, Prince Mannikin, part 28: M…

Was the Princess fancying the whole lot of them, innit?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Princess · What happens: be, fancy, innit · To what, where: Princess, whole lot

This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 1891 «Madame d'Aulnoy's Fairy Tales, Prince Mannikin, part 28: Mannikin wins the joust and the Ambassador's insolent letter arrives» 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	3 Princess	cop
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Princess	det
3	Princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 innit	nsubj
4	fancying	fancy	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 Princess	acl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 lot	det
6	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 lot	amod
7	lot	lot	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fancying	obj
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 them	case
9	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 lot	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 innit	punct
11	innit	innit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	11 innit	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	is a	past		the Princess	tree rules
2	fancy	gerund	the Princess not said here	the whole lot of them	vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer lot=Stimulus
3	innit	infinitive	the Princess		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

nah, she was just bored

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 bored	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 bored	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 bored	cop
5	just	just	ADV	_	6 bored	advmod
6	bored	bored	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	she					bored property	tree rules

Option 2

nah, she was not bothered at all, honest

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 bothered	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 bothered	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 bothered	aux:pass
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 bothered	advmod
6	bothered	bother	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 all	case
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 bothered	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 honest	punct
10	honest	honest	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 bothered	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not bother	past · passive		she		all			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

nah, she was not bothered at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 bothered	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 bothered	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 bothered	aux:pass
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 bothered	advmod
6	bothered	bother	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 all	case
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 bothered	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not bother	past · passive		she		all			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

yeah, she fancied one lot

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 fancied	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 fancied	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 fancied	nsubj
4	fancied	fancy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 lot	nummod
6	lot	lot	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fancied	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fancy	past	she	one lot					vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer lot=Stimulus

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