Test 12 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, Binnorie: the cruel sister drowns the…

Hold up, does the cap o' rushes girl get her own name?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, cap, girl · What happens: hold up, do, get, name · To what, where: own name

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 1949 «English Fairy Tales, Binnorie: the cruel sister drowns the youngest princess and the harp tells the truth» 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	Hold	hold	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	up	up	ADP	_	1 Hold	compound:prt
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 does	punct
4	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Hold	parataxis
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 cap	det
6	cap	cap	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 get	nsubj
7	o	of	ADP	Abbr=Yes	10 girl	case
8	'	'	PUNCT	_	10 girl	punct
9	rushes	rush	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 girl	compound
10	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 cap	nmod
11	get	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 does	ccomp
12	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 name	nmod:poss
13	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 name	amod
14	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 get	obj
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Hold	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	hold up	imperative	you not said here		vn support-15.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot
2	do	present			tree rules
3	get	present	the cap of rushes girl	girl's own name	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer name=Stimulus
4	name		girl		nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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

Nah, the maids just called her that

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 maids	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 maids	det
4	maids	maid	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 called	nsubj
5	just	just	ADV	_	6 called	advmod
6	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 called	obj
8	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 called	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	call	past	the maids	her = she					vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme that=Result

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Nah, the servants and the whole kitchen staff just called her that for years

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 servants	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 servants	det
4	servants	servant	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 called	obl
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 called	cc
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 staff	det
7	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 staff	amod
8	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 staff	compound
9	staff	staff	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 called	nsubj
10	just	just	ADV	_	11 called	advmod
11	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 called	obj
13	that	that	SCONJ	_	15 years	mark
14	for	for	ADP	_	15 years	case
15	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 called	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	call	past	the whole kitchen staff	the servants					vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Nah, the servants just called her that

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 servants	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 servants	det
4	servants	servant	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 called	nsubj
5	just	just	ADV	_	6 called	advmod
6	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 called	obj
8	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 called	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	call	past	the servants	her = she					vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme that=Result

Option 4

Nah, the servants just called her that, not her real name at all

The tree, 13 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 servants	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 servants	det
4	servants	servant	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 called	nsubj
5	just	just	ADV	_	6 called	advmod
6	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 called	obj
8	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 called	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 name	punct
10	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 name	advmod
11	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 name	nmod:poss
12	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 name	amod
13	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 called	obl
14	at	at	ADP	_	15 all	case
15	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	13 name	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	call	past	the servants	her = she				her real name at all obl	vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme that=Result
2	name		her = she						nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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