Test 6 · ★ · Pink Fairy Book, Prince Ficklé and Fair Helena, part 1: a…

Helena's stepmother is a proper nasty one, isn't she?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: stepmother · What happens: be, not be · To what, where: proper nasty one, Helena

This is test 6 · ★ 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	Helena	Helena	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 stepmother	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Helena	case
3	stepmother	stepmother	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 one	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 one	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 one	det
6	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 one	amod
7	nasty	nasty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 one	amod
8	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 one	punct
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 she	cop
11	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 she	advmod
12	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 one	conj
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 one	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Helena's stepmother	a proper nasty one					tree rules
2	not is a	present	Helena's stepmother not said here	Helena					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

Yeah, she's really awful, bruv

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 awful	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 awful	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 awful	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 awful	cop
5	really	really	ADV	_	6 awful	advmod
6	awful	awful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 bruv	punct
8	bruv	bruv	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 awful	vocative

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	she					bruv vocative; awful property	tree rules

Option 2

Yeah, she's mean

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 mean	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 mean	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 mean	cop
5	mean	mean	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Yeah, she makes her do all the hardest jobs in the whole house and never says thanks at all

The tree, 19 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 makes	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 makes	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 makes	nsubj
4	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 makes	obj
6	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 makes	xcomp
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	10 jobs	det:predet
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 jobs	det
9	hardest	hard	ADJ	Degree=Sup	10 jobs	amod
10	jobs	job	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 do	obj
11	in	in	ADP	_	14 house	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 house	det
13	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 house	amod
14	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 jobs	nmod
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 says	cc
16	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	17 says	advmod
17	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 makes	conj
18	thanks	thanks	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 says	nsubj
19	at	at	ADP	_	20 all	case
20	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	18 thanks	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	make	present	she	her = she		tree rules
2	do	infinitive	her = she not said here	all hardest jobs	the whole house	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent job=Eventuality
3	not say speech: assert	present	thanks at all			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, she's dead mean to her

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 mean	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 mean	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 mean	cop
5	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 mean	amod
6	mean	mean	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	to	to	ADP	_	8 her	case
8	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 mean	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	she		her = she			mean property	tree rules

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