Test 10 · ★ · Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Blue Light, part 47: the soldier'…

the raven girl's a princess, innit?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: raven girl, princess · What happens: be, innit · To what, where: princess

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 771 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Blue Light, part 47: the soldier's pipe calls the manikin, and a queen's child becomes a raven» 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	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 girl	det
2	raven	raven	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 girl	compound
3	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 princess	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 princess	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 princess	det
6	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 innit	punct
8	innit	innit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 princess	acl
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 princess	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the raven girl	a princess					tree rules
2	innit	infinitive	a princess not said here						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

nah, she's a maid

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 maid	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 maid	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 maid	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 maid	det
6	maid	maid	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

yeah, she claims she's a queen

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 claims	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 claims	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 claims	nsubj
4	claims	claim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 queen	nsubj
6	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 queen	cop
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 queen	det
8	queen	queen	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 claims	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	claim speech: other	present	she						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is a	present	she	a queen					tree rules

Option 3

nah, she says she's a farmer's girl

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 says	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 says	nsubj
4	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 girl	nsubj
6	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 girl	cop
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 farmer	det
8	farmer	farmer	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 girl	nmod:poss
9	's	's	PART	_	8 farmer	case
10	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 says	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	she						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is a	present	she	a farmer's girl					tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

yeah, she says she's a king's daughter

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 says	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 says	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 says	nsubj
4	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 daughter	nsubj
6	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 daughter	cop
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 king	det
8	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 daughter	nmod:poss
9	's	's	PART	_	8 king	case
10	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 says	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	she						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is a	present	she	a king's daughter					tree rules

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