Test 9 · ★ · Fairy Tales (pg2435), The Boy Who Could Keep A Secret: the…

how did the horse diss the mare, like, for real?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: horse · What happens: be, diss · To what, where: mare

This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 670 «Fairy Tales (pg2435), The Boy Who Could Keep A Secret: the king adopts the boy, and the sword slides home» 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	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	5 diss	advmod
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 how	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 horse	det
4	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 how	nsubj
5	diss	diss	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 mare	det
7	mare	mare	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 diss	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 diss	punct
9	like	like	INTJ	_	5 diss	discourse
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 real	punct
11	for	for	ADP	_	12 real	case
12	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 diss	conj
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 diss	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the horse					how property	tree rules
2	diss	present		the mare					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 · ✓ the right answer

said she carried a fat lady

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 carried	nsubj
3	carried	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 said	ccomp
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 lady	det
5	fat	fat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 lady	amod
6	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 carried	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past							vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	carry	past	she	a fat lady					vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lady=Theme

Option 2

said she was so heavy the farmer had to shoe her twice a year

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 heavy	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 heavy	cop
4	so	so	ADV	_	5 heavy	advmod
5	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 said	ccomp
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 farmer	det
7	farmer	farmer	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 had	nsubj
8	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 said	ccomp
9	to	to	PART	_	10 shoe	mark
10	shoe	shoe	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 had	obj
11	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 shoe	nmod:unmarked
12	twice	twice	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	8 had	advmod
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 year	det
14	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 said	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past			year		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	is	past	she			heavy property	tree rules
3	have	past	the farmer	shoe her		twice property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shoe=Patient

Option 3

told her she was chunky

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 told	iobj
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 chunky	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 chunky	cop
5	chunky	chunky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 told	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past			her = she				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient
2	is	past	she					chunky property	tree rules

Option 4

said she hauled a big lady

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 hauled	nsubj
3	hauled	haul	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 said	ccomp
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 lady	det
5	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 lady	amod
6	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hauled	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past							vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	haul	past	she	a big lady					vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lady=Theme

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