Test 12 · ★ · Pink Fairy Book, Prince Ficklé and Fair Helena, part 1: a…

So the witch's cloth made the flower come back as a girl, yeah?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: cloth, flower · What happens: make, come back

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 1910 «Pink Fairy Book, Prince Ficklé and Fair Helena, part 1: a kind Fairy helps Helena sort the feathers and empty the pond, and her cruel stepmother plans something worse» 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	_	6 made	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 witch	det
3	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 cloth	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 witch	case
5	cloth	cloth	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 made	nsubj
6	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 flower	det
8	flower	flower	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 come	nsubj
9	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 made	ccomp
10	back	back	ADV	_	9 come	advmod
11	as	as	ADP	_	13 girl	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 girl	det
13	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 come	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 made	punct
15	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 made	discourse
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 made	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	past	the witch's cloth						tree rules
2	come back	present	the flower					as a girl	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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 · ✓ the right answer

Yep, Hyacinthia stood right there

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yep	yep	INTJ	_	4 stood	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yep	punct
3	Hyacinthia	Hyacinthia	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 stood	nsubj
4	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	right	right	ADV	_	6 there	advmod
6	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 stood	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stand	past	Hyacinthia			there			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

Yep, the cloth worked, and Hyacinthia stood right there in front of him as a real living girl

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yep	yep	INTJ	_	5 worked	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yep	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 cloth	det
4	cloth	cloth	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 worked	nsubj
5	worked	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 stood	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 stood	cc
8	Hyacinthia	Hyacinthia	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 stood	nsubj
9	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 worked	conj
10	right	right	ADV	_	11 there	advmod
11	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	9 stood	advmod
12	in	in	ADP	_	13 front	case
13	front	front	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 stood	obl
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 him	case
15	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 front	nmod
16	as	as	ADP	_	20 girl	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 girl	det
18	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 girl	amod
19	living	living	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 girl	compound
20	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 stood	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	work	past	the cloth						vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	stand	past	Hyacinthia			front of cloth; there		as a real living girl	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in front=Location

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Nah, the witch's cloth did nothing to the flower, and it stayed a little blue flower in the pot

The tree, 20 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	7 did	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 witch	det
4	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 cloth	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 witch	case
6	cloth	cloth	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 did	nsubj
7	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	7 did	obj
9	to	to	ADP	_	11 flower	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 flower	det
11	flower	flower	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 did	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 stayed	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 stayed	cc
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 stayed	nsubj
15	stayed	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 did	conj
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 flower	det
17	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 flower	amod
18	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 flower	amod
19	flower	flower	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 stayed	obj
20	in	in	ADP	_	22 pot	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 pot	det
22	pot	pot	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 stayed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	the witch's cloth	nothing				to the flower	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Eventuality
2	stay	past	cloth	a little blue flower		the pot			vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme flower=Location

Option 4

Yep, the flower was still a flower

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yep	yep	INTJ	_	8 flower	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yep	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 flower	det
4	flower	flower	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 flower	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 flower	cop
6	still	still	ADV	_	8 flower	advmod
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 flower	det
8	flower	flower	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	the flower	a flower			still		tree rules

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