Test 11 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, Ivan Golik, part 38: the prince wins t…

so why did the prince want to bounce home?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: prince · What happens: do, want, bounce · To what, where: home

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 1132 «Russian Folk-Tales, Ivan Golik, part 38: the prince wins the serpent's daughter with Golik's help, then plans to go home» 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	_	3 did	advmod
2	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	3 did	advmod
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 prince	det
5	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 want	nsubj
6	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 did	ccomp
7	to	to	PART	_	8 bounce	mark
8	bounce	bounce	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 want	xcomp
9	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 bounce	obj
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	do	past			tree rules
2	want	present	the prince		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3	bounce not said to happen	to-infinitive	the prince not said here	home	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent home=Agent

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

they had no food

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	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 food	det
4	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 had	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	they	no food					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Patient

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

they meant no good

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	2 meant	nsubj
2	meant	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 good	det
4	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 meant	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	past	they	no good					vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent good=Topic

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

they meant no good for the prince at all

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	2 meant	nsubj
2	meant	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 good	det
4	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 meant	obj
5	for	for	ADP	_	7 prince	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 prince	det
7	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 meant	obl
8	at	at	ADP	_	9 all	case
9	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	2 meant	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	past	they	no good		all		for the prince	vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot good=Theme for prince=Attribute

Option 4

they wanted the bow

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	2 wanted	nsubj
2	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 bow	det
4	bow	bow	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 wanted	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	they	the bow					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot bow=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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