Test 7 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, Tom Tit Tot, part 1: a lazy girl must…

why did the impet twirl its tail so much

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: do · To what, where: impet twirl

This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 1943 «English Fairy Tales, Tom Tit Tot, part 1: a lazy girl must spin five skeins a day or lose her head, and a little black impet offers to help» 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	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	2 did	advmod
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 twirl	det
4	impet	impet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 twirl	amod
5	twirl	twirl	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 did	obj
6	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 tail	nmod:poss
7	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 did	obj
8	so	so	ADV	_	9 much	advmod
9	much	much	ADV	_	2 did	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past		the impet twirl					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

it was proper frustrated and it wanted the king to pay it three guesses at once, mate

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 frustrated	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 frustrated	cop
3	proper	properly	ADV	_	4 frustrated	advmod
4	frustrated	frustrated	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 wanted	cc
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 wanted	nsubj
7	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 frustrated	conj
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 king	det
9	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 wanted	obj
10	to	to	PART	_	11 pay	mark
11	pay	pay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 wanted	xcomp
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 pay	obj
13	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 guesses	nummod
14	guesses	guess	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 pay	obj
15	at	at	ADP	_	16 once	case
16	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	11 pay	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 mate	punct
18	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 frustrated	vocative

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	it		mate vocative; frustrated, properly property	tree rules
2	want	past	it	the king		tree rules
3	pay not said to happen	to-infinitive	the king not said here	it		vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent it=Recipient guess=Asset

Option 2

it was annoyed because the girl kept guessing wrong names and it had to wait all night

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 annoyed	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 annoyed	cop
3	annoyed	annoyed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	because	because	SCONJ	_	7 kept	mark
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 girl	det
6	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 kept	nsubj
7	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 annoyed	advcl
8	guessing	guess	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 kept	xcomp
9	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 names	amod
10	names	name	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 guessing	obj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 had	cc
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 had	nsubj
13	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 annoyed	conj
14	to	to	PART	_	15 wait	mark
15	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 had	xcomp
16	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	17 night	det
17	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 wait	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	it			annoyed property	tree rules
2	keep	past	the girl				tree rules
3	guess	gerund	the girl not said here	wrong names			vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent name=Theme
4	have	past	it				tree rules
5	wait	to-infinitive			night		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

it was annoyed and proper frustrated

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 annoyed	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 annoyed	cop
3	annoyed	annoyed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 proper	cc
5	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 annoyed	conj
6	frustrated	frustrated	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 annoyed	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is	past	it	annoyed property	tree rules
2	be				tree rules
3	be				tree rules

Option 4

it was tired of waiting, mate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 tired	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 tired	cop
3	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	of	of	SCONJ	_	5 waiting	mark
5	waiting	wait	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 tired	advcl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 mate	punct
7	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 tired	vocative

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	it					mate vocative; tired property	tree rules
2	wait	gerund							vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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