Test 4 · ★ · Violet Fairy Book, The Gifts of the Magician, part 22: a b…

Was the princess into him at first sight, or nah?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be · To what, where: princess

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 682 «Violet Fairy Book, The Gifts of the Magician, part 22: a boy saves a magician from wolves and wins his horse» 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	Was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 princess	cop
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 princess	det
3	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 sight	csubj
4	into	into	ADP	_	5 him	case
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 princess	nmod
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 first	case
7	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	8 sight	obl
8	sight	sight	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 nah	punct
10	or	or	CCONJ	_	11 nah	cc
11	nah	nah	INTJ	_	8 sight	discourse
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 sight	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the princess				into him = he	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

She stayed cold until he won a long contest

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	2 stayed	nsubj
2	stayed	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 stayed	xcomp
4	until	until	SCONJ	_	6 won	mark
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 won	nsubj
6	won	win	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 stayed	advcl
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 contest	det
8	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 contest	amod
9	contest	contest	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 won	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stay	past	She					cold property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	win	past	he	a long contest					vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent contest=Eventuality

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

She fell for him instantly

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	2 fell	nsubj
2	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	for	for	ADP	_	4 him	case
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 fell	obl
5	instantly	instantly	ADV	_	2 fell	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall	past	She					for him = he; instantly property	vn long-32.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Pivot for he=Theme

Option 3

She only warmed to him after many weeks at court

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	3 warmed	nsubj
2	only	only	ADV	_	3 warmed	advmod
3	warmed	warm	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	5 him	case
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 warmed	obl
6	after	after	ADP	_	8 weeks	case
7	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 weeks	amod
8	weeks	week	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 warmed	obl
9	at	at	ADP	_	10 court	case
10	court	court	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 warmed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	warm	past	She		him = he	court	week		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 4

She disliked him at first

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	2 disliked	nsubj
2	disliked	dislike	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 disliked	obj
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 first	case
5	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	2 disliked	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dislike	past	She	him = he					vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus

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