Test 2 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Travelling Companion, part 219…

Mate, wait, why'd the traveller nick the swan's wings?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, traveller · What happens: wait, nick · To what, where: wings

This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 1008 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Travelling Companion, part 219: John meets the princess and sees the garden of dead suitors» 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	3 wait	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Mate	punct
3	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 nick	punct
5	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	9 nick	advmod
6	'd	'd	PUNCT	_	9 nick	punct
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 traveller	det
8	traveller	traveller	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 nick	nsubj
9	nick	nick	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 wait	conj
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 swan	det
11	swan	swan	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 wings	nmod:poss
12	's	's	PART	_	11 swan	case
13	wings	wing	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 nick	obj
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here					Mate vocative	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	nick	infinitive	the traveller	the swan's wings					vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wing=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 · ✓ the right answer

They were worth loads of money

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 loads	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 loads	cop
3	worth	worth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 loads	amod
4	loads	load	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 money	case
6	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 loads	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	They	worth loads				of money	tree rules

Option 2

They were worth loads of money to the showman and his friends

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 loads	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 loads	cop
3	worth	worth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 loads	amod
4	loads	load	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 money	case
6	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 loads	nmod
7	to	to	ADP	_	9 showman	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 showman	det
9	showman	showman	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 money	nmod
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 friends	cc
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 friends	nmod:poss
12	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 loads	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	They	worth loads and his friends				of money to the showman	tree rules

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

He wanted to fly away home

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	to	to	PART	_	4 fly	mark
4	fly	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 wanted	xcomp
5	away	away	ADV	_	4 fly	advmod
6	home	home	ADV	_	4 fly	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	He						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	fly away not said to happen	to-infinitive	He not said here					away, home property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

They looked well nice on him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 looked	nsubj
2	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 nice	advmod
4	nice	nice	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 looked	xcomp
5	on	on	ADP	_	6 him	case
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 looked	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	past	They					on him = he; nice property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on he=Theme

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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