Test 4 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Travelling Companion: the magi…

wait so what did the magician whisper by the palace?

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

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 1010 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Travelling Companion: the magician's head, the swan, and the farewell» 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	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	so	so	ADV	_	1 wait	advmod
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 wait	parataxis
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 whisper	det
6	magician	magician	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 whisper	compound
7	whisper	whisper	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obj
8	by	by	ADP	_	10 palace	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 palace	det
10	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	do	past		the magician whisper				by the palace	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whisper=Eventuality

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

"To-morrow think of my head."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 think	punct
2	To	to	ADP	_	5 think	case
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 To	punct
4	morrow	morrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 think	compound
5	think	think	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 head	case
7	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 head	nmod:poss
8	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 think	nmod
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 think	punct
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 think	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think in a quote		my head						nom think «cognition intransitive»: of=agent

Option 2

Tomorrow, you will be my king.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tomorrow	tomorrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 king	obl:unmarked
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Tomorrow	punct
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 king	nsubj
4	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 king	aux
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 king	cop
6	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 king	nmod:poss
7	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 king	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	future	you	my king			tomorrow		tree rules

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Think of the sea and the fishes.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Think	think	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	of	of	ADP	_	4 sea	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 sea	det
4	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Think	obl
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 fishes	cc
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 fishes	det
7	fishes	fish	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 sea	conj
8	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Think	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	imperative	you not said here					of the sea and the fishes	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

To-morrow you must think very hard of my head and nothing else, or you will be lost

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	ADP	_	3 morrow	case
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	1 To	punct
3	morrow	morrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 think	obl
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 think	nsubj
5	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 think	aux
6	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	very	very	ADV	_	8 hard	advmod
8	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 think	ccomp
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 head	case
10	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 head	nmod:poss
11	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 hard	obl
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 nothing	cc
13	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	11 head	conj
14	else	else	ADV	_	13 nothing	advmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 lost	punct
16	or	or	CCONJ	_	20 lost	cc
17	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	20 lost	nsubj
18	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 lost	aux
19	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	20 lost	aux:pass
20	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 think	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	must	you					to morrow	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	lose	future · passive		you					vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality

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