Test 9 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, Johnny-Cake, part 1: Mr. Fox is cut t…

Mate, what does Mr. Fox keep saying when she tells her dream?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Mate, Fox · What happens: keep, say, tell, dream · To what, where: dream · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 1965 «English Fairy Tales, Johnny-Cake, part 1: Mr. Fox is cut to pieces, Lazy Jack wins a bride, and a cake escapes from the oven» 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	7 keep	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 Fox	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 Fox	nsubj
4	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 Fox	aux
5	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Fox	nmod:desc
6	Fox	Fox	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Mate	conj
7	keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	saying	say	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 keep	xcomp
9	when	when	SCONJ	_	11 tells	mark
10	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 tells	nsubj
11	tells	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 saying	ccomp
12	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 dream	nmod:poss
13	dream	dream	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 tells	obj
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 keep	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	keep	present	Mate and Fox Mr.		tree rules
2	say speech: assert	gerund	Mate and Fox Mr. not said here		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	tell speech: assert	present	Fox	Fox's dream	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent dream=Recipient
4	dream		Fox		nom dream «cognition 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

It is not so, nor was it ever so at all

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 so	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 so	cop
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 so	advmod
4	so	so	ADV	_	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 was	punct
6	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	7 was	cc
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 so	cop
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 was	obj
9	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	10 so	advmod
10	so	so	ADV	_	7 was	advmod
11	at	at	ADP	_	12 all	case
12	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 was	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is	present	It					so property	tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

It is not so, nor it was not so

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 so	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 so	cop
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 so	advmod
4	so	so	ADV	_	10 so	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 was	punct
6	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	8 was	cc
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 was	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 so	cop
9	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 was	advmod
10	so	so	ADV	_	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is	present	It					so property	tree rules
2	is	past						so property	tree rules

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

It was so, and it was true

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	8 true	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 true	cop
3	so	so	ADV	_	8 true	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 true	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 true	cc
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 true	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 true	cop
8	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 4

Ah, it is not so, nor it was not so, my dear

The tree, 12 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ah	ah	INTJ	_	6 so	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Ah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 so	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 so	cop
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 so	advmod
6	so	so	ADV	_	15 dear	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 so	punct
8	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	12 so	cc
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 so	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 so	cop
11	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 so	advmod
12	so	so	ADV	_	15 dear	advmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 dear	punct
14	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 dear	nmod:poss
15	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is	present	it					so property	tree rules
2	not is	past	it					so property	tree rules

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