Test 7 · ★ · Yule-Tide Stories, The Prince and the Dove-Bride: the fals…

Ngl, why did the prince keep holding on so tight?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: Ngl, prince · What happens: do, keep, hold · To what, where: tight

This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 1155 «Yule-Tide Stories, The Prince and the Dove-Bride: the false bride is unmasked and both wicked women are sent away» 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	Ngl	Ngl	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 did	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Ngl	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 did	advmod
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 prince	det
6	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 keep	nsubj
7	keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 did	ccomp
8	holding	hold	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 keep	xcomp
9	on	on	ADP	_	11 tight	case
10	so	so	ADV	_	11 tight	advmod
11	tight	tight	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 holding	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	roles by
1	do	past	Ngl		tree rules
2	keep	present	the prince		tree rules
3	hold	gerund	the prince not said here	tight	vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on tight=Location

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

He wanted her back.

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	2 wanted	nsubj
2	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 wanted	obj
4	back	back	ADV	_	2 wanted	advmod
5	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 wanted	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want back	past	He	her = she					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot she=Theme

Option 2

He was lazy.

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 lazy	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 lazy	cop
3	lazy	lazy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 lazy	punct

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

Option 3

He was scared.

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 scared	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 scared	cop
3	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 scared	punct

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

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

He would not let go

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	4 let	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 let	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 let	advmod
4	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 let	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not let	would	He						tree rules
2	go	infinitive	He not said here						vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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