Test 4 · ★ · Crimson Fairy Book, The Singing Roses, part 20: the stepmo…

Why'd the dad come back the second time, though?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: dad · What happens: come back

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 1154 «Crimson Fairy Book, The Singing Roses, part 20: the stepmother drowns the princess and disguises her own daughter as the bride» 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 come	advmod
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 come	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 dad	det
4	dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 come	nsubj
5	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	back	back	ADV	_	5 come	advmod
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 time	det
8	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	9 time	amod
9	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 come	obl:unmarked
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 though	punct
11	though	though	SCONJ	_	5 come	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 come	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come back	would	the dad				time		vn escape-51.1-1 «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 · ← Mova's choice

He were hungry

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 hungry	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 hungry	cop
3	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 2

He got lost, like

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	got	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 lost	aux:pass
3	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 lost	punct
5	like	like	INTJ	_	3 lost	discourse

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	past · passive		He					vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

He'd forgotten his axe

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 forgotten	nsubj
2	'd	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 forgotten	aux
3	forgotten	forget	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 axe	nmod:poss
5	axe	axe	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 forgotten	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	forget	past · perfect	He	his axe					tree rules

Option 4

He'd wanted more wood

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 wanted	nsubj
2	'd	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 wanted	aux
3	wanted	want	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 wood	amod
5	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 wanted	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past · perfect	He	more wood					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot wood=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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