Test 2 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, The Three Wishes: a woodman spares a…

Did the fairy give that woodman proper three wishes, my lover?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: fairy, woodman · What happens: give, wish

This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 250 «English Fairy Tales, The Three Wishes: a woodman spares a tree, gets three wishes, and wastes one on black pudding» 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	Did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 give	aux
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 fairy	det
3	fairy	fairy	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 give	nsubj
4	give	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 wishes	mark
6	woodman	woodman	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 wishes	nsubj
7	proper	properly	ADV	_	9 wishes	advmod
8	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 wishes	nummod
9	wishes	wish	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 give	iobj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 lover	punct
11	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 lover	nmod:poss
12	lover	lover	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 wishes	conj
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 give	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	past · do-support	the fairy						vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wish=Theme
2	wish		woodman					properly property	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 · ← Mova's choice

Yes, three wishes, be they what they may, and he used them all wisely

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 wishes	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 wishes	nummod
4	wishes	wish	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 they	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 wishes	punct
6	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 they	cop
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 used	nsubj
8	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 they	obj
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 may	nsubj
10	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 what	acl:relcl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 used	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 used	cc
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 used	nsubj
14	used	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 used	obj
16	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	15 them	nmod:unmarked
17	wisely	wisely	ADV	_	14 used	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	infinitive	three wishes	wishes = wish					tree rules
2	use	past	wishes = wish	them = they				wisely property	vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient

Option 2

No, just one, as I recall

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 one	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 one	punct
3	just	just	ADV	_	4 one	advmod
4	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 recall	punct
6	as	as	SCONJ	_	8 recall	mark
7	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 recall	nsubj
8	recall	recall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 one	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	recall	present	I						vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Yes, three, be they what they may

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	3 three	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 three	punct
3	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 what	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 three	punct
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 what	cop
6	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 what	nsubj
7	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 may	nsubj
9	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 what	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	infinitive	three						tree rules

Option 4

No, only one wish, and it was small

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	5 wish	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 wish	punct
3	only	only	ADV	_	5 wish	advmod
4	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 wish	nummod
5	wish	wish	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 small	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 small	cc
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 small	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 small	cop
10	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 wish	conj

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

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