Test 12 · ★ · Andersen, The Wicked Prince, part 230: a poet-student asks…

was the prince feeling guilty about any of it?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: prince · What happens: feel

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 1019 «Andersen, The Wicked Prince, part 230: a poet-student asks a wise woman for help, and a cruel prince wins riches by destroying other lands» 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	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 feeling	aux
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 prince	det
3	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 feeling	nsubj
4	feeling	feel	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	guilty	guilty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 feeling	xcomp
6	about	about	ADP	_	7 any	case
7	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	5 guilty	obl
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 it	case
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 any	nmod
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 feeling	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	feel	past · progressive	the prince					guilty property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=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

nah, he thought it was all totally fine

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 thought	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 thought	nsubj
4	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 fine	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 fine	cop
7	all	all	ADV	_	9 fine	advmod
8	totally	totally	ADV	_	9 fine	advmod
9	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 thought	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	he						vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	it					all, fine, totally property	tree rules

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

nah, he thought it was all fine

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 thought	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 thought	nsubj
4	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 fine	expl
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 fine	cop
7	all	all	ADV	_	8 fine	advmod
8	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 thought	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	he						vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	past						all, fine property	tree rules

Option 3

nah, he thought it was all totally fine and even necessary for the glory of his realm

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 thought	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 thought	nsubj
4	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 fine	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 fine	cop
7	all	all	ADV	_	9 fine	advmod
8	totally	totally	ADV	_	9 fine	advmod
9	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 thought	ccomp
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 necessary	cc
11	even	even	ADV	_	12 necessary	advmod
12	necessary	necessary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 fine	conj
13	for	for	ADP	_	15 glory	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 glory	det
15	glory	glory	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 necessary	obl
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 realm	case
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 realm	nmod:poss
18	realm	realm	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 glory	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	he		vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	it	all, fine, totally property	tree rules
3	be			for the glory of his realm	tree rules
4	glory		his realm		nom glory «state intransitive»: of=agent

Option 4

yes, he regretted some parts a lot

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 regretted	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yes	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 regretted	nsubj
4	regretted	regret	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	6 parts	det
6	parts	part	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 regretted	obj
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 lot	det
8	lot	lot	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 regretted	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	regret	past	he	some parts				a lot obl:unmarked	vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer part=Stimulus

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