Test 12 · ★ · Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Faithful John, part 18: the King…

why did the King go and open the locked door?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: King · What happens: go, open, lock · To what, where: locked door

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 115 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Faithful John, part 18: the King sees a portrait, falls in love, and sails off with its princess» 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	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	5 go	advmod
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 go	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 King	det
4	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 go	nsubj
5	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 open	cc
7	open	open	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 go	conj
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 door	det
9	locked	lock	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 door	amod
10	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 open	obj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 go	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	go	past · do-support	the King		vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	open	infinitive	the King not said here	the locked door	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location door=Theme
3	lock	participle			vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient

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

cause John said it was fine, honest

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cause	cause	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	John	John	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 said	nsubj
3	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 cause	ccomp
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 fine	expl
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 fine	cop
6	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 said	ccomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 honest	punct
8	honest	honest	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 fine	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	cause	imperative	you not said here		tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	John		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	is	past		fine property	tree rules
4	be				tree rules

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

cause he couldn't stop himself, honest

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cause	cause	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 stop	nsubj
3	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 stop	aux
4	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 stop	advmod
5	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 cause	acl:relcl
6	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	5 stop	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 honest	punct
8	honest	honest	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 cause	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not stop	could	he	himself = he					vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector himself=Eventuality

Option 3

cause he was bored

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cause	cause	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 bored	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 bored	cop
4	bored	bored	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 cause	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	he	cause not said here				bored property	tree rules

Option 4

cause he was told to by the crows

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cause	cause	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 told	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 told	aux:pass
4	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 cause	acl:relcl
5	to	to	PART	_	4 told	xcomp
6	by	by	ADP	_	8 crows	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 crows	det
8	crows	crow	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 told	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past · passive	the crows	he					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent subject=Recipient

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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