Test 4 · ★ · Perrault, Riquet with the Tuft: the princess keeps her wor…

Be real, why did none of the princes get a yes?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, none · What happens: be, do, get · To what, where: yes

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 1087 «Perrault, Riquet with the Tuft: the princess keeps her word and marries the prince» 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	Be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	2 real	cop
2	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 did	punct
4	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	5 did	advmod
5	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 real	parataxis
6	none	none	PRON	PronType=Neg	10 get	nsubj
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 princes	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 princes	det
9	princes	prince	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 none	nmod
10	get	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 did	ccomp
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 yes	det
12	yes	yes	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 get	obj
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 real	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	imperative	you not said here		real property	tree rules
2	do	past				tree rules
3	get	present	none	a yes		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer yes=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 · ← Mova's choice

They were not rich

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 rich	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 rich	cop
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 rich	advmod
4	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is	past	They					rich property	tree rules

Option 2

They were too shy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 shy	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 shy	cop
3	too	too	ADV	_	4 shy	advmod
4	shy	shy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	They					shy property	tree rules

Option 3

None of them had enough wit for her

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	None	none	PRON	PronType=Neg	4 had	nsubj
2	of	of	ADP	_	3 them	case
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 None	nmod
4	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	enough	enough	ADV	_	4 had	advmod
6	wit	wit	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 had	obj
7	for	for	ADP	_	8 her	case
8	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 wit	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	None	wit				for her = she; enough property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wit=Patient

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

None had enough wit

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	None	none	PRON	PronType=Neg	4 wit	nsubj:pass
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 wit	aux
3	enough	enough	ADV	_	4 wit	advmod
4	wit	wit	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wit	past · perfect · passive		None				enough property	tree rules

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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