Test 11 · ★ · Fairy Tales, Wildrose, part 16: the baby vanishes, an eagl…

did the girls in the kingdom want to be empress up a tree?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: girls · What happens: want, empress up · To what, where: tree

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 676 «Fairy Tales, Wildrose, part 16: the baby vanishes, an eagle carries her off, the prince searches» 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=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 want	aux
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 girls	det
3	girls	girl	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 want	nsubj
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 kingdom	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 kingdom	det
6	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 girls	nmod
7	want	want	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	to	to	PART	_	10 empress	mark
9	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	10 empress	aux:pass
10	empress	empress	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 want	xcomp
11	up	up	ADP	_	10 empress	compound:prt
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 tree	det
13	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 empress	obj
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 want	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past · do-support	the girls in the kingdom						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	empress up not said to happen	to-infinitive · passive	the girls in the kingdom not said here	a tree					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

Nah, they laughed and tossed their heads

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 laughed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 laughed	nsubj
4	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 tossed	cc
6	tossed	toss	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 laughed	conj
7	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 heads	nmod:poss
8	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 tossed	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	laugh	past	they						vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	toss	past	they not said here	their heads					vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Patient

Option 2

Nope, they fainted

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nope	nope	INTJ	_	4 fainted	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nope	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 fainted	nsubj
4	fainted	faint	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	faint	past	they						vn change_bodily_state-40.8.4 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

Option 3

Nah, they wept and begged their fathers

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 wept	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 wept	nsubj
4	wept	weep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 begged	cc
6	begged	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 wept	conj
7	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 fathers	nmod:poss
8	fathers	father	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 begged	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	weep	past	they						vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	beg speech: request	past	they not said here		their fathers				vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent father=Recipient

Option 4

Yeah, they all hurried to the tree top

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 hurried	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 hurried	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 hurried	nsubj
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 hurried	advmod
5	hurried	hurry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	to	to	ADP	_	9 top	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 top	det
8	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 top	compound
9	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 hurried	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hurry	past	they			the tree top			vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to top=Destination

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