Test 5 · ★ · Fairy Tales, Princess Rosette, part 56: the Princess runs…

Mate, that lady with the birds was a right madam, wasn't she, all stuck-up and proud?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Mate, she · What happens: be, not be · To what, where: right madam

This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 1919 «Fairy Tales, Princess Rosette, part 56: the Princess runs off in the King's boat and meets the stately lady of the birds» 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	Mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 madam	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 lady	punct
3	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 lady	det
4	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Mate	conj
5	with	with	ADP	_	7 birds	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 birds	det
7	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 lady	nmod
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 madam	cop
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 madam	det
10	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 madam	amod
11	madam	madam	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 madam	punct
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 proud	cop
14	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	22 proud	advmod
15	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 proud	nsubj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 proud	punct
17	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	22 proud	nsubj
18	stuck	stuck	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 proud	advmod
19	-	-	PUNCT	_	20 up	punct
20	up	up	ADP	_	18 stuck	compound
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 proud	cc
22	proud	proud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 madam	parataxis
23	?	?	PUNCT	_	11 madam	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	Mate and that lady with the birds	a right madam					tree rules
2	not is	past	she					proud property	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 · ← Mova's choice

Yeah, she was stuck-up, told them all to work

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 stuck	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 stuck	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 stuck	cop
5	stuck	stuck	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 up	punct
7	up	up	ADP	_	5 stuck	compound
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 told	punct
9	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 stuck	conj
10	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 told	iobj
11	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	10 them	nmod:unmarked
12	to	to	PART	_	13 work	mark
13	work	work	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 told	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	she		stuck property	tree rules
2	tell speech: assert	past	she not said here	them = they		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic
3	work not said to happen	to-infinitive	she not said here			vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

Yeah, bit rude.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	3 bit	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 bit	punct
3	bit	bite	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	rude	rude	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 bit	xcomp
5	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 bit	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bite	past						rude property	vn swat-18.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Nah, she was nice.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 nice	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 nice	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 nice	cop
5	nice	nice	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 nice	punct

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Totally, she was well posh, said everyone was busy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Totally	totally	ADV	_	8 said	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 posh	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 posh	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 posh	cop
5	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 posh	advmod
6	posh	posh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Totally	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Totally	punct
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	11 busy	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 busy	cop
11	busy	busy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 said	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is	past	she	posh, well property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past		totally property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	is	past	everyone	busy property	tree rules

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