Test 5 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, The Fish and the Ring: a baron tries…

Was the girl a proper scullion, like a kitchen skivvy?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be · To what, where: girl

This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 1971 «English Fairy Tales, The Fish and the Ring: a baron tries to drown the girl he has fated for his son, and a ring saves her» 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	Was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 girl	cop
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 girl	det
3	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 scullion	csubj
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 scullion	det
5	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 scullion	amod
6	scullion	scullion	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 skivvy	punct
8	like	like	ADP	_	11 skivvy	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 skivvy	det
10	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 skivvy	compound
11	skivvy	skivvy	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 scullion	conj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 scullion	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the girl					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

Yeah, she was used to work in the hut for her father's family all her life

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 used	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 used	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 used	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 used	aux:pass
5	used	use	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 work	mark
7	work	work	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 used	xcomp
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 hut	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 hut	det
10	hut	hut	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 work	obl
11	for	for	ADP	_	15 family	case
12	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 father	nmod:poss
13	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 family	nmod:poss
14	's	's	PART	_	13 father	case
15	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 work	obl
16	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	18 life	det:predet
17	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 life	nmod:poss
18	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 work	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	use	past · passive		she					vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: subject=Theme clause=Eventuality
2	work	to-infinitive		her life		the hut		for her father's family	vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for family=Beneficiary

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Nah, she was a lady from the castle

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 lady	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 lady	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 lady	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 lady	det
6	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	from	from	ADP	_	9 castle	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 castle	det
9	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 lady	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	she	a lady		the castle			tree rules

Option 3

Nah, she was never a scullion, she had been raised in the baron's own household

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	7 scullion	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 scullion	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 scullion	cop
5	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	7 scullion	advmod
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 scullion	det
7	scullion	scullion	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 raised	punct
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 raised	nsubj:pass
10	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 raised	aux
11	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	12 raised	aux:pass
12	raised	raise	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 scullion	parataxis
13	in	in	ADP	_	18 household	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 baron	det
15	baron	baron	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 household	nmod:poss
16	's	's	PART	_	15 baron	case
17	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 household	amod
18	household	household	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 raised	obl:agent

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is a	past	she	a scullion					tree rules
2	raise	past · perfect · passive	the baron's own household	she					vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, she was used to work in the hut

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 used	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 used	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 used	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 used	aux:pass
5	used	use	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 work	mark
7	work	work	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 used	xcomp
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 hut	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 hut	det
10	hut	hut	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 work	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	use	past · passive		she					vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: subject=Theme clause=Eventuality
2	work	to-infinitive						in the hut	vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in hut=Theme

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