Test 7 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Princess and the Pea: a pea tests a…

Why did the prince end up marrying her, innit?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: prince, you · What happens: end up, marry, innit · To what, where: her

This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 951 «Andersen's Tales, The Princess and the Pea: a pea tests a real princess» 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	5 end	advmod
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 end	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 prince	det
4	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 end	nsubj
5	end	end	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 innit	advcl
6	up	up	ADP	_	5 end	compound:prt
7	marrying	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 end	xcomp
8	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 marrying	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 end	punct
10	innit	innit	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	10 innit	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	end up	past · do-support	the prince		tree rules
2	marry	gerund	the prince not said here	her = she	vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient
3	innit	imperative	you 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

Because she was pretty and kind

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Because	because	SCONJ	_	4 pretty	mark
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 pretty	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 pretty	cop
4	pretty	pretty	ADV	_	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 kind	cc
6	kind	kind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 pretty	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	she					pretty property	tree rules
2	be		she not said here						tree rules

Option 2

Because she had felt the pea under all twenty mattresses

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Because	because	SCONJ	_	4 felt	mark
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 felt	nsubj
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 felt	aux
4	felt	feel	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 pea	det
6	pea	pea	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 felt	obj
7	under	under	ADP	_	10 mattresses	case
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	10 mattresses	det
9	twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 mattresses	nummod
10	mattresses	mattress	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 felt	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	feel	past · perfect	she	the pea		all twenty mattresses			vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent pea=Theme under mattress=Location

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Because she had felt the pea

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Because	because	SCONJ	_	4 felt	mark
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 felt	nsubj
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 felt	aux
4	felt	feel	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 pea	det
6	pea	pea	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 felt	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	feel	past · perfect	she	the pea					vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pea=Theme

Option 4

Because she was nice

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

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