Test 8 · ★ · Fairy Book, The Lion Fairy, part 45: the queen is taken to…

Skint queen, no bees around, so wat did she do?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: wat · What happens: do · To what, where: Skint queen

This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 1179 «Fairy Book, The Lion Fairy, part 45: the queen is taken to a gloomy palace, and frogs help her make a bee-sting pasty and build a cabin» 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	Skint	skint	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 queen	amod
2	queen	queen	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 bees	punct
4	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	5 bees	det
5	bees	bee	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 queen	nmod
6	around	around	ADV	_	5 bees	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 do	punct
8	so	so	ADV	_	12 do	advmod
9	wat	wat	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 do	nsubj
10	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 do	aux
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 do	nsubj
12	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 queen	acl:relcl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 queen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past · do-support	wat	Skint queen no bees not said here					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent queen=Eventuality

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

Built a new cabin deep in the dark forest

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Built	build	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 cabin	det
3	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 cabin	amod
4	cabin	cabin	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Built	obj
5	deep	deep	ADV	_	1 Built	advmod
6	in	in	ADP	_	9 forest	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 forest	det
8	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 forest	amod
9	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Built	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	build	past		a new cabin		the dark forest		deep property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset cabin=Product

Option 2

Begged the lion for food

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Begged	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 lion	det
3	lion	lion	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Begged	obj
4	for	for	ADP	_	5 food	case
5	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Begged	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	beg speech: request	past			the lion			for food	vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent lion=Recipient for food=Topic

Option 3

Sent a letter to her husband asking for gold

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 letter	det
3	letter	letter	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Sent	obj
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 husband	case
5	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 husband	nmod:poss
6	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Sent	obl
7	asking	ask	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Sent	advcl
8	for	for	ADP	_	9 gold	case
9	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 asking	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	send	past		a letter	her husband				vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent letter=Theme to husband=Destination
2	ask speech: ask	gerund						for gold	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Asked the frog for help

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 frog	det
3	frog	frog	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Asked	obj
4	for	for	ADP	_	5 help	case
5	help	help	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Asked	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	past			the frog			for help	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent frog=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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