Test 2 · ★ · Violet Fairy Book, The Enchanted Ring, part 1: Rosimond is…

So the Fairies turned up in chariots, like a proper party?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Fairies · What happens: turn up · To what, where: chariots

This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 1894 «Violet Fairy Book, The Enchanted Ring, part 1: Rosimond is cast out, gets a magic ring, and spies on the wicked King» 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	So	so	ADV	_	4 turned	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Fairies	det
3	Fairies	Fairy	PROPN	Number=Plur	4 turned	nsubj
4	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	up	up	ADP	_	4 turned	compound:prt
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 chariots	case
7	chariots	chariot	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 turned	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 party	punct
9	like	like	ADP	_	12 party	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 party	det
11	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 party	amod
12	party	party	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 turned	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 turned	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn up	past	the Fairies			chariots		like a proper party	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in chariot=Location

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, they just rolled up on horses, bit boring, innit

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 rolled	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 rolled	nsubj
4	just	just	ADV	_	5 rolled	advmod
5	rolled	roll	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	up	up	ADP	_	5 rolled	compound:prt
7	on	on	ADP	_	8 horses	case
8	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 rolled	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 bit	punct
10	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 horses	appos
11	boring	boring	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 bit	amod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 innit	punct
13	innit	innit	INTJ	_	5 rolled	discourse

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	roll up	past	they					on horses	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on horse=Trajectory

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Nah, they came on foot and there was no ball at all, proper dull

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 came	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 came	nsubj
4	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 ball	advcl
5	on	on	ADP	_	6 foot	case
6	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 came	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 was	cc
8	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	9 was	expl
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 ball	cop
10	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	11 ball	det
11	ball	ball	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
12	at	at	ADP	_	13 all	case
13	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	11 ball	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 ball	punct
15	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 ball	amod
16	dull	dull	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 proper	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	they			foot			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on foot=Location
2	is a	past		no ball		all			tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, the King had to host a massive ball

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 had	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 King	det
4	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 had	nsubj
5	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 host	mark
7	host	host	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 had	xcomp
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 ball	det
9	massive	massive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 ball	amod
10	ball	ball	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 host	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	the King						tree rules
2	host	to-infinitive	the King not said here	a massive ball					vn captain-29.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ball=Beneficiary

Option 4

Yeah, the King threw a huge ball

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 threw	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 King	det
4	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 threw	nsubj
5	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 ball	det
7	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 ball	amod
8	ball	ball	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 threw	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	throw	past	the King	a huge ball					vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ball=Theme

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