Test 10 · ★ · Lang's Fairy Book, The Little Soldier, part 1: a serpent w…

Is the Porcelain Maiden well wicked, like, scratching folk?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Porcelain Maiden · What happens: be, scratch · To what, where: folk

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1898 «Lang's Fairy Book, The Little Soldier, part 1: a serpent with a woman's head asks for help» 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	Is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 wicked	cop
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Maiden	det
3	Porcelain	Porcelain	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Maiden	compound
4	Maiden	Maiden	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 wicked	nsubj
5	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 wicked	advmod
6	wicked	wicked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 like	punct
8	like	like	INTJ	_	6 wicked	discourse
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 scratching	punct
10	scratching	scratch	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 wicked	advcl
11	folk	folk	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 scratching	obj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 wicked	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the Porcelain Maiden					well, wicked property	tree rules
2	scratch	gerund	the Porcelain Maiden not said here	folk					vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent folk=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 · ← Mova's choice

Yes, she scratches and bites everyone who tries to touch her

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 scratches	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 scratches	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 scratches	nsubj
4	scratches	scratch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 bites	cc
6	bites	bite	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 scratches	conj
7	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	6 bites	obj
8	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 tries	nsubj
9	tries	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 everyone	acl:relcl
10	to	to	PART	_	11 touch	mark
11	touch	touch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 tries	xcomp
12	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 touch	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	scratch	present	she		vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	bite	present	she not said here	everyone	vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everyone=Patient
3	try	present			vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	touch not said to happen	to-infinitive		her = she	vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme she=Co-Theme

Option 2

No, she only sings softly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	5 sings	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 sings	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 sings	nsubj
4	only	only	ADV	_	5 sings	advmod
5	sings	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	softly	softly	ADV	_	5 sings	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sing speech: express	present	she					softly property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location

Option 3

Yes, she scratches people who come near her room

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 scratches	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 scratches	nsubj
4	scratches	scratch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 scratches	obj
6	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 come	nsubj
7	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 people	acl:relcl
8	near	near	ADP	_	10 room	case
9	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 room	nmod:poss
10	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 come	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	scratch	present	she	people					vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Theme
2	come	present	people			her room			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme near room=Location

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Yes, she scratches people

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 scratches	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 scratches	nsubj
4	scratches	scratch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 scratches	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	scratch	present	she	people					vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Theme

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