Test 7 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, Tattercoats: the goosegirl dances int…

Bruv, what did she say when he asked her to marry him?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Bruv, he · What happens: say, ask, marry · To what, where: Bruv, him · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 245 «English Fairy Tales, Tattercoats: the goosegirl dances into the ball and is crowned Princess, and the gooseherd vanishes» 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	Bruv	Bruv	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 say	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Bruv	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 say	obj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 say	aux
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 say	nsubj
6	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	9 asked	advmod
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 asked	nsubj
9	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 say	advcl
10	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 asked	iobj
11	to	to	PART	_	12 marry	mark
12	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 asked	xcomp
13	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 marry	obj
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 say	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past · do-support	Bruv			Bruv vocative	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic
2	ask speech: ask	past	he		Bruv		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic
3	marry not said to happen	to-infinitive	he not said here	him = he			vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient

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 blushed and turned her back

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 blushed	nsubj
2	blushed	blush	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 turned	cc
4	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 blushed	conj
5	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 back	nmod:poss
6	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 turned	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	blush	past	She						vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	turn	past	She not said here	her back					vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent back=Theme

Option 2

She refused and walked away quick

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 refused	nsubj
2	refused	refuse	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 walked	cc
4	walked	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 refused	conj
5	away	away	ADV	_	4 walked	advmod
6	quick	quick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 walked	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	refuse	past	She						vn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent
2	walk away	past	She not said here					away, quick property	vn resign-10.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

She said yes

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 said	nsubj
2	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	2 said	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	She						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent yes=Topic

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

She laughed and shook her golden head

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 laughed	nsubj
2	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 shook	cc
4	shook	shake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 laughed	conj
5	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 head	nmod:poss
6	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 head	amod
7	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 shook	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	laugh	past	She						vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	shake	past	She not said here	her golden head					vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent head=Patient

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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