Test 9 · ★ · Celtic Fairy Tales, Gold-tree and Silver-tree: the jealous…

Ngl, how did Silver-tree actually die, like?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Ngl · What happens: do, die · To what, where: Silver tree

This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 1998 «Celtic Fairy Tales, Gold-tree and Silver-tree: the jealous queen's plots end in her own death» 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	Ngl	Ngl	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 did	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Ngl	punct
3	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	4 did	advmod
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	Silver	Silver	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 tree	compound
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 Silver	punct
7	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obj
8	actually	actually	ADV	_	9 die	advmod
9	die	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 did	advcl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 die	punct
11	like	like	ADP	_	9 die	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	Ngl	Silver tree					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tree=Eventuality
2	die	present	Ngl not said here					actually property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

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

she drank from the cup meant for the prince at dinner

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 drank	nsubj
2	drank	drink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	from	from	SCONJ	_	6 meant	mark
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 cup	det
5	cup	cup	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 meant	nsubj
6	meant	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 drank	ccomp
7	for	for	ADP	_	9 prince	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 prince	det
9	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 meant	obl
10	at	at	ADP	_	11 dinner	case
11	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 meant	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drink	past	she						tree rules
2	mean	past	the cup			dinner		for the prince	vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot for prince=Attribute

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

drank the poisoned cup

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	drank	drink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 cup	det
3	poisoned	poison	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 cup	amod
4	cup	cup	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 drank	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drink	past		the poisoned cup					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cup=Patient
2	poison	participle							vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 3

drank the cup of wine

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	drank	drink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 cup	det
3	cup	cup	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 drank	obj
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 wine	case
5	wine	wine	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 cup	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drink	past		the cup of wine					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cup=Patient

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

was stabbed in the glen

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	2 stabbed	aux:pass
2	stabbed	stab	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 glen	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 glen	det
5	glen	glen	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 stabbed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stab	past · passive				the glen			vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: in glen=Location

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