Test 8 · ★ · Andersen, The Wicked Prince, part 230: a poet-student asks…

what was the wicked prince all about?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: wicked prince · What happens: be

This is test 8 · ★ 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	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 what	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 prince	det
4	wicked	wicked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 prince	amod
5	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 what	nsubj
6	all	all	ADV	_	7 about	advmod
7	about	about	ADV	_	5 prince	advmod
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 what	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	the wicked prince						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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

conquering the whole world and scaring people

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	conquering	conquer	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 world	det
3	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 world	amod
4	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 conquering	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 scaring	cc
6	scaring	scare	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 conquering	conj
7	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 scaring	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	conquer	gerund		the whole world					vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent world=Patient
2	scare	gerund		people					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus people=Experiencer

Option 2

gathering armies to threaten every nation nearby

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	gathering	gather	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	armies	army	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 gathering	obj
3	to	to	PART	_	4 threaten	mark
4	threaten	threaten	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 gathering	advcl
5	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	6 nation	det
6	nation	nation	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 threaten	obj
7	nearby	nearby	ADV	_	4 threaten	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	gather	gerund		armies					vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent army=Theme
2	threaten	to-infinitive		every nation				nearby property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus nation=Experiencer

Option 3

conquering the whole world, scaring people, and building palaces from the loot of every town

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	conquering	conquer	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 world	det
3	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 world	amod
4	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 conquering	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 scaring	punct
6	scaring	scare	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 conquering	conj
7	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 scaring	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 palaces	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 palaces	cc
10	building	building	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 palaces	compound
11	palaces	palace	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 conquering	obl
12	from	from	ADP	_	14 loot	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 loot	det
14	loot	loot	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 palaces	nmod
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 town	case
16	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	17 town	det
17	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 loot	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	other	roles by
1	conquer	gerund	the whole world	building palaces from the loot of every town obl	vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent world=Patient
2	scare	gerund	people		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus people=Experiencer
3	loot		every town		nom loot «possession transitive»: of=patient

Option 4

building huge palaces and stealing lots of land

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	building	build	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 palaces	amod
3	palaces	palace	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 building	obj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 stealing	cc
5	stealing	steal	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 building	conj
6	lots	lot	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 stealing	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 land	case
8	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 lots	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	build	gerund		huge palaces					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset palace=Product
2	steal	gerund		lots of land					vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location lot=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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