Test 10 · ★ · Grimm's Tales, Cinderella, part 17: Cinderella goes to the…

Mad, what was faithful John's whole deal with the king?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be · To what, where: faithful whole deal

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 114 «Grimm's Tales, Cinderella, part 17: Cinderella goes to the feast three times, loses a golden slipper, and the prince seeks his bride; the old king makes faithful John promise to guard his son» 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	Mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 deal	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	9 deal	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 deal	cop
5	faithful	faithful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 deal	amod
6	John	John	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 deal	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 John	case
8	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 deal	amod
9	deal	deal	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Mad	appos
10	with	with	ADP	_	12 king	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 king	det
12	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 deal	nmod
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Mad	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		John's faithful whole deal				with the king	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

to guard him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	2 guard	mark
2	guard	guard	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 guard	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	guard	to-infinitive			him = he				vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

to keep the prince safe

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	2 keep	mark
2	keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 prince	det
4	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 keep	obj
5	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 keep	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	to-infinitive		the prince				safe property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prince=Theme

Option 3

to feed the king

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	2 feed	mark
2	feed	feed	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 king	det
4	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 feed	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	feed	to-infinitive			the king				vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent king=Recipient

Option 4

to serve the king loyally

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	2 serve	mark
2	serve	serve	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 king	det
4	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 serve	obj
5	loyally	loyally	ADV	_	2 serve	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	serve	to-infinitive		the king				loyally property	vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent king=Attribute

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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