Test 8 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, The Three Wishes: a woodman spares a…

Did the poor man get dazed by the fairy, my lover?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: fairy · What happens: daze · To what, where: poor man

This is test 8 · ★ 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	6 dazed	aux
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 man	det
3	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 man	amod
4	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 dazed	nsubj
5	get	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 dazed	aux:pass
6	dazed	daze	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	by	by	ADP	_	9 fairy	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 fairy	det
9	fairy	fairy	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 dazed	obl
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 fairy	conj
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 dazed	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	daze	past · passive · do-support	the fairy and my lover	the poor man					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus subject=Experiencer

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

Yes, he could hardly speak and he stumbled home in shock

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 speak	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 speak	nsubj
4	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 speak	aux
5	hardly	hardly	ADV	_	6 speak	advmod
6	speak	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 stumbled	cc
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 stumbled	nsubj
9	stumbled	stumble	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 speak	conj
10	home	home	ADV	_	9 stumbled	advmod
11	in	in	ADP	_	12 shock	case
12	shock	shock	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 stumbled	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	speak speech: other	could	he					hardly property	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	stumble	past	he			shock		home property	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in shock=Trajectory

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Yes, he could hardly speak

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 speak	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 speak	nsubj
4	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 speak	aux
5	hardly	hardly	ADV	_	6 speak	advmod
6	speak	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	speak speech: other	could	he					hardly property	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

No, he was not dazed, he just walked away from the fairy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	6 dazed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 dazed	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 dazed	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 dazed	aux:pass
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 dazed	advmod
6	dazed	daze	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 walked	advcl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 dazed	punct
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 walked	nsubj
9	just	just	ADV	_	10 walked	advmod
10	walked	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	away	away	ADV	_	10 walked	advmod
12	from	from	ADP	_	14 fairy	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 fairy	det
14	fairy	fairy	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 walked	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not daze	past · passive		he					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer
2	walk away	past	he					from the fairy; away property	vn resign-10.11-1 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Agent from fairy=Source

Option 4

No, he spoke to the fairy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 spoke	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 spoke	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 spoke	nsubj
4	spoke	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 fairy	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 fairy	det
7	fairy	fairy	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 spoke	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	speak speech: other	past	he					to the fairy	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to fairy=Co-Agent

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