Test 11 · ★ · Tales of Past Times, The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood, part…

So the Prince walked through the wood no bother?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Prince · What happens: walk · To what, where: bother, wood

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 1081 «Tales of Past Times, The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood, part 6: the Princess pricks her hand, the palace falls asleep, and the Prince finds her awake» 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	So	so	ADV	_	4 walked	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Prince	det
3	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 walked	nsubj
4	walked	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	through	through	ADP	_	7 wood	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 wood	det
7	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 walked	obl
8	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	9 bother	det
9	bother	bother	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 walked	obj
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 walked	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	walk	past	the Prince	no bother		the wood			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent bother=Theme through wood=Trajectory

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

A hundred men had cut a path for him to walk through the wood

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 men	det
2	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 men	nummod
3	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 cut	nsubj:pass
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 cut	aux
5	cut	cut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 path	det
7	path	path	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 cut	obj
8	for	for	SCONJ	_	11 walk	mark
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 walk	nsubj
10	to	to	PART	_	11 walk	mark
11	walk	walk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 cut	advcl
12	through	through	ADP	_	14 wood	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 wood	det
14	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 walk	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cut	past · perfect · passive		a hundred men					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary path=Product
2	walk	to-infinitive	him = he			the wood			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through wood=Trajectory

Option 2

He rode his horse straight through

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 rode	nsubj
2	rode	ride	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 horse	nmod:poss
4	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 rode	obj
5	straight	straight	ADV	_	6 through	advmod
6	through	through	ADV	_	2 rode	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ride	past	He	his horse				through property	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Theme

Option 3

The brambles tore at him, but he passed through the thorns in the end

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 brambles	det
2	brambles	bramble	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 tore	nsubj
3	tore	tore	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 him	case
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 tore	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 passed	punct
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	9 passed	cc
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 passed	nsubj
9	passed	pass	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 tore	parataxis
10	through	through	ADP	_	12 thorns	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 thorns	det
12	thorns	thorn	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 passed	obl
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 end	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 end	det
15	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 passed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tore	past	the brambles					at him = he	tree rules
2	pass	past	he			the thorns	in the end		vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme through thorn=Location

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

The trees opened up to let him through

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 trees	det
2	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 opened	nsubj
3	opened	open	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	up	up	ADP	_	3 opened	compound:prt
5	to	to	PART	_	6 let	mark
6	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 opened	advcl
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 let	obj
8	through	through	ADP	_	6 let	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	open up	past	the trees						vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	let through	to-infinitive	the trees not said here	him = he					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent 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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