Test 3 · ★ · Fairy Tales, The Dirty Shepherdess: a King's youngest daug…

Wait, why did her dad chuck her out of the castle?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, dad · What happens: wait, chuck · To what, where: her, castle

This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 1903 «Fairy Tales, The Dirty Shepherdess: a King's youngest daughter hides in rags, works as a shepherdess, and wins a Prince with a lost ring.» 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	Wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 chuck	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	7 chuck	advmod
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 chuck	aux
5	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 dad	nmod:poss
6	dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 chuck	nsubj
7	chuck	chuck	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Wait	advcl
8	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 chuck	obj
9	out	out	ADP	_	12 castle	case
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 castle	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 castle	det
12	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 chuck	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	chuck	past · do-support	her dad	her = she		the castle			vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent she=Theme out castle=Destination

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

she wouldn't say what he wanted

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 say	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 say	aux
3	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 say	advmod
4	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 wanted	obj
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 wanted	nsubj
7	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 say	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not say speech: assert	would	she						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	want	past	he						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot what=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

she never said she loved him enough

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	3 said	nsubj
2	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	3 said	advmod
3	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 loved	nsubj
5	loved	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 said	ccomp
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 loved	obj
7	enough	enough	ADV	_	5 loved	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not say speech: assert	past	she						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	love	past	she	him = he				enough property	vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus

Option 3

she'd been plotting to steal the crown from her dad

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 plotting	nsubj
2	'd	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 plotting	aux
3	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 plotting	aux
4	plotting	plot	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 steal	mark
6	steal	steal	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 plotting	xcomp
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 crown	det
8	crown	crown	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 steal	obj
9	from	from	ADP	_	11 dad	case
10	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 dad	nmod:poss
11	dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 steal	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	plot	past · perfect · progressive	she						tree rules
2	steal	to-infinitive	she not said here	the crown				from her dad	vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent crown=Theme from dad=Source

Option 4

she married a stable lad without asking him first, mate

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	2 married	nsubj
2	married	marry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 lad	det
4	stable	stable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 lad	amod
5	lad	lad	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 married	obj
6	without	without	SCONJ	_	7 asking	mark
7	asking	ask	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 married	advcl
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 asking	obj
9	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	7 asking	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 mate	punct
11	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 married	vocative

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	marry	past	she	a stable lad				mate vocative	vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lad=Patient
2	ask speech: ask	gerund	she not said here		him = he			first property	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient

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