Test 9 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, Binnorie: the cruel sister drowns the…

Wait, the third daughter said she loved her dad like fresh meat loves salt?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, third daughter, daughter · What happens: wait, say, love · To what, where: dad, salt · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 9 · ★ 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	Wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 said	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 daughter	det
4	third	third	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	5 daughter	amod
5	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 said	nsubj
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Wait	advcl
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 loved	nsubj
8	loved	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 said	ccomp
9	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 dad	nmod:poss
10	dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 loved	obj
11	like	like	ADP	_	13 meat	case
12	fresh	fresh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 meat	amod
13	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 loves	obl
14	loves	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 loved	conj
15	salt	salt	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 loves	obj
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	the third daughter			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	love	past	daughter	daughter's dad		vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer dad=Stimulus
4	love	present	daughter not said here	salt	like fresh meat	vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer salt=Stimulus

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 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, and he was well angry

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	7 angry	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 angry	punct
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 angry	cc
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 angry	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 angry	cop
6	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	7 angry	advmod
7	angry	angry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Nah, she loved him like sugar

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 loved	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 loved	nsubj
4	loved	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 loved	obj
6	like	like	ADP	_	7 sugar	case
7	sugar	sugar	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 loved	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	love	past	she	him = he				like sugar	vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus

Option 3

Nah, she was not

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 was	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 was	nsubj
4	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 was	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not be	past	she						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

Yeah, and he was well angry and chucked her out the house

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	7 angry	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 angry	punct
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 angry	cc
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 angry	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 angry	cop
6	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	7 angry	advmod
7	angry	angry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 chucked	cc
9	chucked	chuck	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 angry	conj
10	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 chucked	obj
11	out	out	ADP	_	9 chucked	compound:prt
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 house	det
13	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 chucked	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	he					angry, well property	tree rules
2	chuck out	past	he not said here	the house	her = she				vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Destination house=Theme

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