Test 4 · ★ · Fairy Tales, The Three Snake-Leaves, part 64: a tailor fre…

Ngl, what did the lady say when that guy asked her to marry him?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Ngl, lady, guy · What happens: do, say, ask, marry · To what, where: lady, guy · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 1927 «Fairy Tales, The Three Snake-Leaves, part 64: a tailor frees his bride's castle, then a young king is trapped in a royal vault» 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	Ngl	Ngl	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 did	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Ngl	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 lady	det
6	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 say	nsubj
7	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 did	parataxis
8	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	11 asked	advmod
9	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	10 guy	det
10	guy	guy	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 asked	nsubj
11	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 say	ccomp
12	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 asked	iobj
13	to	to	PART	_	14 marry	mark
14	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 asked	xcomp
15	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 marry	obj
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	do	past	Ngl			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert	present	the lady			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	ask speech: ask	past	that guy		lady	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic
4	marry not said to happen	to-infinitive	that guy not said here	guy		vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient

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 said nah

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 said	nsubj
2	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	nah	nah	INTJ	_	2 said	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	she						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

she gave zero answer, just stayed quiet

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 gave	nsubj
2	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	zero	zero	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 answer	nummod
4	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 gave	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 stayed	punct
6	just	just	ADV	_	7 stayed	advmod
7	stayed	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 gave	conj
8	quiet	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 stayed	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	past	she	zero answer					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent answer=Theme
2	stay	past	she not said here					quiet property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

she gave no reply at all

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 gave	nsubj
2	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 reply	det
4	reply	reply	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 gave	obj
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 all	case
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	2 gave	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	past	she	no reply		all			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent reply=Theme at all=Asset

Option 4

she just said nothing, lowkey

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	just	just	ADV	_	3 said	advmod
3	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	3 said	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 lowkey	punct
6	lowkey	lowkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 nothing	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	she	nothing					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent nothing=Topic

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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