Test 7 · ★ · Europe's Fairy Book, Tiidu the Piper, part 17: a wise maid…

lowkey what did the guests think of the bride

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: lowkey · What happens: do, think · To what, where: guests

This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 677 «Europe's Fairy Book, Tiidu the Piper, part 17: a wise maiden is carried off, and lazy Tiidu finds his pipes» 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	lowkey	lowkey	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 think	nsubj
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 did	nsubj
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 lowkey	acl:relcl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 guests	det
5	guests	guest	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 did	obj
6	think	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 bride	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 bride	det
9	bride	bride	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 think	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	lowkey	the guests					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent guest=Eventuality
2	think speech: other	present	lowkey					of the bride	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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

she was truly beautiful

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 beautiful	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 beautiful	cop
3	truly	truly	ADV	_	4 beautiful	advmod
4	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	she					beautiful, truly property	tree rules

Option 2

nobody could find any fault with her manners or looks

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	3 find	nsubj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 find	aux
3	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	5 fault	det
5	fault	fault	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 find	obj
6	with	with	ADP	_	8 manners	case
7	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 manners	nmod:poss
8	manners	manners	NOUN	Number=Ptan	3 find	obl
9	or	or	CCONJ	_	10 looks	cc
10	looks	look	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 manners	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	find	could	nobody	any fault				with her manners or looks	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fault=Topic

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

they said she would be a devoted and loyal wife

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 said	nsubj
2	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 devoted	nsubj
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 devoted	aux
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 devoted	cop
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 devoted	det
7	devoted	devoted	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 said	ccomp
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 loyal	cc
9	loyal	loyal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 devoted	conj
10	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 devoted	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	they		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is	would	she	devoted property	tree rules
3	be		she not said here		tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

she was the perfect wife

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 wife	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 wife	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 wife	det
4	perfect	perfect	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 wife	amod
5	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	she	the perfect wife					tree rules

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