Test 8 · ★ · Orange Fairy Book, The Story of the Sham Prince, part 1: L…

Ngl, did the robe fit him or not?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: Ngl, robe · What happens: do, fit · To what, where: Ngl

This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 716 «Orange Fairy Book, The Story of the Sham Prince, part 1: Labakan steals a robe, sets off as a prince, and robs his friend» 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	Ngl	Ngl	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 did	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Ngl	punct
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 robe	det
5	robe	robe	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 fit	nsubj
6	fit	fit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 did	ccomp
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 fit	obj
8	or	or	CCONJ	_	9 not	cc
9	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 fit	conj
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	Ngl						tree rules
2	fit	present	the robe	Ngl					vn adjust-26.9 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient

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

It was tight across the shoulders

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 was	nsubj
2	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	tight	tight	ADV	_	2 was	advmod
4	across	across	ADP	_	6 shoulders	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 shoulders	det
6	shoulders	shoulder	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 was	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	past	It			the shoulders		tight property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

It fitted like it was made for him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 fitted	nsubj
2	fitted	fit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	like	like	SCONJ	_	6 made	mark
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 made	nsubj:pass
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 made	aux:pass
6	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 fitted	ccomp
7	for	for	ADP	_	8 him	case
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 made	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fit	past	It						tree rules
2	make	past · passive		it				for him = he	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: subject=Material for he=Beneficiary

Option 3

It fitted him quite badly really

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 fitted	nsubj
2	fitted	fit	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 fitted	obj
4	quite	quite	ADV	_	5 badly	advmod
5	badly	badly	ADV	Degree=Pos	2 fitted	advmod
6	really	really	ADV	_	2 fitted	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fit	past	It	him = he				badly property	vn adjust-26.9 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient

Option 4

It was a bit tight round the middle but he didn't mind because it looked so grand

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 tight	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 tight	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 bit	det
4	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 tight	obl:unmarked
5	tight	tight	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	round	round	ADP	_	8 middle	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 middle	det
8	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 tight	obl
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 mind	cc
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 mind	nsubj
11	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 mind	aux
12	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 mind	advmod
13	mind	mind	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 tight	conj
14	because	because	SCONJ	_	16 looked	mark
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 looked	nsubj
16	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 mind	advcl
17	so	so	ADV	_	18 grand	advmod
18	grand	grand	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 looked	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is	past	It	round the middle; a bit obl:unmarked; tight property	tree rules
2	not mind	past · do-support	he		vn care-88.1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	look	past	middle	grand property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

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