Test 11 · ★ · Household Tales, Ashputtel, part 35: a cruel stepmother se…

Mate, what did the prince say to stop the others dancing with her?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: prince · What happens: say, stop, dance · To what, where: Mate, others · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 759 «Household Tales, Ashputtel, part 35: a cruel stepmother sets impossible tasks, and a hazel-tree brings Ashputtel a golden dress for the king's feast» 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	Mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 say	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 say	obj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 say	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 prince	det
6	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 say	nsubj
7	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Mate	conj
8	to	to	PART	_	9 stop	mark
9	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 say	xcomp
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 others	det
11	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 stop	obj
12	dancing	dance	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 stop	xcomp
13	with	with	ADP	_	14 her	case
14	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 dancing	obl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Mate	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past · do-support	the prince	Mate		tree rules
2	stop	to-infinitive	the prince not said here	the others		tree rules
3	dance	gerund	the prince not said here		with her = she	vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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

This lady is dancing with me

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	This	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 lady	det
2	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 dancing	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 dancing	aux
4	dancing	dance	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	with	with	ADP	_	6 me	case
6	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 dancing	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dance	present · progressive	this lady					with me	vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

She's too tired to dance

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 tired	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 tired	cop
3	too	too	ADV	_	4 tired	advmod
4	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 dance	mark
6	dance	dance	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 tired	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	She					tired property	tree rules
2	dance	to-infinitive	She not said here						vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

Go dance somewhere else

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	dance	dance	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Go	obj
3	somewhere	somewhere	ADV	PronType=Ind	1 Go	advmod
4	else	else	ADV	_	3 somewhere	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	imperative	you not said here	dance				somewhere property	vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location dance=Theme

Option 4

Back off, she's my cousin

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Back	back	ADV	_	2 off	advmod
2	off	off	ADV	_	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 cousin	punct
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 cousin	nsubj
5	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 cousin	cop
6	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 cousin	nmod:poss
7	cousin	cousin	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 off	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	she	my cousin					tree rules

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