Test 11 · ★ · pg23661, Sabrinetta and Elfin, part 24: the dragon is trap…

Did Elfin want to marry the Princess when he first met her, or nah?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Elfin · What happens: want, marry, meet · To what, where: Princess

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 656 «pg23661, Sabrinetta and Elfin, part 24: the dragon is trapped in a bottle and Elfin's hands are burnt» 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	3 want	aux
2	Elfin	Elfin	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 want	nsubj
3	want	want	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 marry	mark
5	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 want	xcomp
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Princess	det
7	Princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 marry	obj
8	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	11 met	advmod
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 met	nsubj
10	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	11 met	advmod
11	met	meet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 marry	advcl
12	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 met	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 nah	punct
14	or	or	CCONJ	_	15 nah	cc
15	nah	nah	INTJ	_	3 want	discourse
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 want	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	want	past · do-support	Elfin			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	marry not said to happen	to-infinitive	Elfin not said here	the Princess		vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent princess=Patient
3	meet	past	Elfin	Princess	first property	vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Co-Agent

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 right answer

he had not met the real Princess

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	4 met	nsubj
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 met	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 met	advmod
4	met	meet	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Princess	det
6	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 Princess	amod
7	Princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 met	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not meet	past · perfect	he	the real Princess					vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent princess=Co-Agent

Option 2

he did not

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 did	nsubj
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	2 did	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not do	past	he						vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

he thought she was a farm girl

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 thought	nsubj
2	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 girl	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 girl	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 girl	det
6	farm	farm	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 girl	compound
7	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 thought	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	he						vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is a	past	she	a farm girl					tree rules

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

he met a fake one first

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 met	nsubj
2	met	meet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 one	det
4	fake	fake	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 one	amod
5	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 met	obj
6	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	2 met	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	meet	past	he	a fake one				first property	vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Co-Agent

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