Test 12 · ★ · Fairy Tales, Wildrose, part 16: the baby vanishes, an eagl…

so the girls thought the whole idea was bonkers, right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: girls, whole idea · What happens: think, be · To what, where: bonkers · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 12 · ★ 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	so	so	ADV	_	4 thought	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 girls	det
3	girls	girl	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 thought	nsubj
4	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 idea	det
6	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 idea	amod
7	idea	idea	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 bonkers	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 bonkers	cop
9	bonkers	bonker	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 thought	ccomp
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 right	punct
11	right	right	INTJ	_	9 bonkers	discourse
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 thought	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	the girls						vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is a	past	the whole idea	bonkers					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

Nope, they found the idea quite charming

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nope	nope	INTJ	_	4 found	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nope	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 found	nsubj
4	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 idea	det
6	idea	idea	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 found	obj
7	quite	quite	ADV	_	8 charming	advmod
8	charming	charming	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 found	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	find	past	they	the idea				charming obl	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent idea=Topic

Option 2

Yeah, they thought it cool

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 thought	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 thought	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 thought	nsubj
4	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 thought	obj
6	cool	cool	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 thought	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	they	it				cool property	vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot it=Theme

Option 3

Yeah, they said it was far too silly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 said	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 silly	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 silly	cop
7	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	9 silly	advmod
8	too	too	ADV	_	9 silly	advmod
9	silly	silly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 said	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	they						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	it					far, silly property	tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, they had read books and were not impressed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 read	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 read	nsubj
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 read	aux
5	read	read	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	books	book	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 read	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 impressed	cc
8	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 impressed	aux:pass
9	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 impressed	advmod
10	impressed	impress	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 read	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	read	past · perfect	they	books					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent book=Topic
2	not impress	past · passive	they not said here						vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»

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