Test 9 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Tinder-Box, part 2: the soldie…

why did the king hate the soldier, bro?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: king · What happens: hate · To what, where: soldier

This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 1002 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Tinder-Box, part 2: the soldier takes gold from the dogs' chests, spends it, and calls the princess up with the tinder-box» 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 hate	advmod
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 hate	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 king	det
4	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 hate	nsubj
5	hate	hate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 soldier	det
7	soldier	soldier	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 hate	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 bro	punct
9	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 soldier	conj
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 hate	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hate	past · do-support	the king	the soldier and bro					vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer soldier=Stimulus

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 · ✓ the right answer

he was scared of the prophecy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 scared	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 scared	cop
3	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 prophecy	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 prophecy	det
6	prophecy	prophecy	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 scared	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	he					of the prophecy; scared property	tree rules

Option 2

he was jealous

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 jealous	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 jealous	cop
3	jealous	jealous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

he wanted the princess for himself

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 wanted	nsubj
2	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 princess	det
4	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 wanted	obj
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 himself	case
6	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	2 wanted	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	he	the princess				for himself = he	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot princess=Theme

Option 4

he was angry about the old lady

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 angry	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 angry	cop
3	angry	angry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	about	about	ADP	_	7 lady	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 lady	det
6	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 lady	amod
7	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 angry	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	he					about the old lady; angry property	tree rules

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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