Test 8 · ★ · Famous Tales, Picciola, part 21: Charney's plant is saved,…

was Mignon really a boy for real?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be · To what, where: Mignon

This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 361 «Famous Tales, Picciola, part 21: Charney's plant is saved, and Mignon dances» 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	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 Mignon	cop
2	Mignon	Mignon	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 boy	nsubj
3	really	really	ADV	_	5 boy	advmod
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 boy	det
5	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	for	for	ADP	_	7 real	case
7	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 boy	nmod
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 boy	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		Mignon					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

nah, she had long black curls and a dark brown tint

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 had	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 had	nsubj
4	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 curls	amod
6	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 curls	amod
7	curls	curl	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 had	obj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 tint	cc
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 tint	det
10	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 tint	amod
11	brown	brown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 tint	amod
12	tint	tint	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 curls	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	she	long black curls and a dark brown tint					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent curl=Patient

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

nah, she had long black curls

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 had	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 had	nsubj
4	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 curls	amod
6	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 curls	amod
7	curls	curl	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 had	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	she	long black curls					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent curl=Patient

Option 3

nah, she had long black curls and was a girl from the troupe

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 had	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 had	nsubj
4	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 curls	amod
6	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 curls	amod
7	curls	curl	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 had	obj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 girl	cc
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 girl	cop
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 girl	det
11	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 had	conj
12	from	from	ADP	_	14 troupe	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 troupe	det
14	troupe	troupe	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 had	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	she	long black curls		the troupe			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent curl=Patient
2	is a	past	she not said here	a girl					tree rules

Option 4

nah, she had short red hair

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 had	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 had	nsubj
4	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 hair	amod
6	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 hair	amod
7	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 had	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	she	short red hair					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hair=Patient

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