Test 8 · ★ · d'Aulnoy, Desiree, part 37: a crab-fairy's curse, a window…

what did the prince say if he couldn't marry her?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: prince · What happens: do, say, not marry · To what, where: her · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 1171 «d'Aulnoy, Desiree, part 37: a crab-fairy's curse, a windowless palace, a sick prince» 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	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	2 did	nsubj
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 prince	det
4	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 say	nsubj
5	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 did	parataxis
6	if	if	SCONJ	_	10 marry	mark
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 marry	nsubj
8	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 marry	aux
9	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 marry	advmod
10	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 say	ccomp
11	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 marry	obj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	do	past			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert	present	the prince		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	not marry a condition, not said to happen	could	prince	her = she	vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

He'd die of misery, dead serious

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 die	nsubj
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 die	aux
3	die	die	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 misery	case
5	misery	misery	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 die	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 die	punct
7	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 serious	amod
8	serious	serious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 die	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	die	would	He					of misery	vn die-42.4-1 «NP V PP.cause»: agent=Patient of misery=Causer

Option 2

He'd die of misery and grief, seriously, he'd fade away in the tower

The tree, 15 words

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 die	nsubj
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 die	aux
3	die	die	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 misery	case
5	misery	misery	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 die	obl
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 grief	cc
7	grief	grief	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 misery	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 seriously	punct
9	seriously	seriously	ADV	_	3 die	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 fade	punct
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 fade	nsubj
12	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 fade	aux
13	fade	fade	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 die	conj
14	away	away	ADV	_	13 fade	advmod
15	in	in	ADP	_	17 tower	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 tower	det
17	tower	tower	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 fade	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	die	would	He					of misery and grief; seriously property	vn die-42.4-1 «NP V PP.cause»: agent=Patient of misery=Causer
2	fade away	would	he			the tower		away property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 3

He'd starve, honestly mate

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 starve	nsubj
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 starve	aux
3	starve	starve	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 honestly	punct
5	honestly	honestly	ADV	_	3 starve	advmod
6	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 starve	vocative

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	starve	would	He					mate vocative; honestly property	tree rules

Option 4

He'd waste away, no joke

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 waste	nsubj
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 waste	aux
3	waste	waste	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	away	away	ADV	_	3 waste	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 joke	punct
6	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	7 joke	det
7	joke	joke	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 waste	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	waste away	would	He					away property	vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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