Test 13 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, Rushen Coatie: the glass slipper fits…

Wait, how'd the prince find the girl with the slipper?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, prince · What happens: wait, find · To what, where: girl

This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 258 «English Fairy Tales, Rushen Coatie: the glass slipper fits the girl in the rushen coatie» 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	Wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 find	punct
3	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	7 find	advmod
4	'd	'd	PUNCT	_	7 find	punct
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 prince	det
6	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 find	nsubj
7	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Wait	conj
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 girl	det
9	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 find	obj
10	with	with	ADP	_	12 slipper	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 slipper	det
12	slipper	slipper	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 girl	nmod
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	find	infinitive	the prince	the girl				with the slipper	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent girl=Topic

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

the raven told him where

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 raven	det
2	raven	raven	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 told	nsubj
3	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 told	iobj
5	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	3 told	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	the raven		him = he				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient

Option 2

he asked each of the maids

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 asked	nsubj
2	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	2 asked	obj
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 maids	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 maids	det
6	maids	maid	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 each	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	past	he	each					vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent each=Recipient

Option 3

by her song

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	by	by	ADP	_	3 song	case
2	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 song	nmod:poss
3	song	song	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sing		her = she						nom song «communication intransitive»: poss=agent

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

he tried it on every lady

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 tried	nsubj
2	tried	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 tried	obj
4	on	on	ADP	_	6 lady	case
5	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	6 lady	det
6	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 tried	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	try	past	he	it				on every lady	vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality

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