Test 2 · ★ · Tales of Past Times, The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood, part…

Hang on, why'd the King go all mental about spindles anyway?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, King · What happens: hang on, go

This is test 2 · ★ 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	Hang	hang	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	on	on	ADP	_	1 Hang	compound:prt
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 go	punct
4	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	8 go	advmod
5	'd	'd	PUNCT	_	8 go	punct
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 King	det
7	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 go	nsubj
8	go	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Hang	advcl
9	all	all	ADV	_	10 mental	advmod
10	mental	mental	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 go	xcomp
11	about	about	ADP	_	12 spindles	case
12	spindles	spindle	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 mental	obl
13	anyway	anyway	ADV	_	1 Hang	advmod
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Hang	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hang on	imperative	you not said here					anyway property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	go	present	the King					mental property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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

He'd seen one kill his son

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	3 seen	nsubj
2	'd	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 seen	aux
3	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 kill	nummod
5	kill	kill	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 seen	obj
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 son	nmod:poss
7	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 seen	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	past · perfect	He	one kill					tree rules

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

He was scared of the old woman's curse

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	3 scared	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 scared	cop
3	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	9 curse	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 woman	det
6	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 woman	amod
7	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 curse	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 woman	case
9	curse	curse	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 scared	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	He					of the old woman's curse; scared property	tree rules
2	curse		the old woman						nom curse «communication transitive»: poss=agent

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

He'd made a proclamation banning them

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	3 made	nsubj
2	'd	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 made	aux
3	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 proclamation	det
5	proclamation	proclamation	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 made	obj
6	banning	ban	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 proclamation	acl
7	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 banning	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	past · perfect	He	a proclamation					vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent proclamation=Product
2	ban	gerund	a proclamation not said here	them = they					vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer they=Theme

Option 4

He'd lost his favourite spindle

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	3 lost	nsubj
2	'd	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 lost	aux
3	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 spindle	nmod:poss
5	favourite	favourite	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 spindle	amod
6	spindle	spindle	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lost	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	past · perfect	He	his favourite spindle					vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spindle=Eventuality

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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