Test 12 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, The Three Feathers: the laundry-maid'…

what did the mistress reckon about the laundry girl, dead good?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: mistress · What happens: reckon

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 241 «English Fairy Tales, The Three Feathers: the laundry-maid's spell sends the men into the pond until her bird-husband comes to take her away» 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	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 reckon	obj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 reckon	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 mistress	det
4	mistress	mistress	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 reckon	nsubj
5	reckon	reckon	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	about	about	ADP	_	9 girl	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 girl	det
8	laundry	laundry	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 girl	compound
9	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 reckon	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 good	punct
11	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 good	amod
12	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 girl	amod
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 reckon	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	reckon	past · do-support	the mistress					about the laundry girl	vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent what=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 · ← Mova's choice

she was worth more than all the rest put together

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	3 worth	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 worth	cop
3	worth	worth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 worth	obj
5	than	than	ADP	_	8 rest	case
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 rest	det:predet
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 rest	det
8	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 more	obl
9	put	put	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 rest	acl
10	together	together	ADV	_	9 put	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	she					worth property	tree rules
2	put together	participle		all rest not said here				together property	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent

Option 2

she was better than them

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	3 better	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 better	cop
3	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
4	than	than	ADP	_	5 them	case
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 better	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	she					than them = they; good property	tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

she was worth all the rest

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	3 worth	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 worth	cop
3	worth	worth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 rest	det:predet
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 rest	det
6	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 worth	obj

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

Option 4

she was worth every penny and all the rest of the staff

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	3 worth	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 worth	cop
3	worth	worth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	5 penny	det
5	penny	penny	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 worth	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 rest	cc
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	9 rest	det:predet
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 rest	det
9	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 worth	conj
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 staff	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 staff	det
12	staff	staff	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 rest	nmod

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

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