Test 12 · ★ · Lang's Fairy Book, The White Slipper, part 62: the king lo…
what's the youth promise, like for real?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: youth promise · What happens: be
This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 1196 «Lang's Fairy Book, The White Slipper, part 62: the king loses his slipper and a youth offers a cure» 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 | root | root |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 what | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 promise | det |
| 4 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 promise | compound |
| 5 | promise | promise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 what | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 real | punct |
| 7 | like | like | ADP | _ | 9 real | case |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 real | case |
| 9 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 promise | acl |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 what | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the youth promise | tree rules |
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
heal the wound within some weeks
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | heal | heal | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 wound | det |
| 3 | wound | wound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 heal | obj |
| 4 | within | within | ADP | _ | 6 weeks | case |
| 5 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 6 weeks | det |
| 6 | weeks | week | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 heal | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | heal | imperative | you not said here | the wound | week | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent wound=Patient |
Option 2
make the slipper that fits the king
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 slipper | det |
| 3 | slipper | slipper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 make | obj |
| 4 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 fits | nsubj |
| 5 | fits | fit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 slipper | acl:relcl |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 king | det |
| 7 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 fits | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | imperative | you not said here | the slipper | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset slipper=Product | ||||
| 2 | fit | present | the slipper | the king | vn adjust-26.9 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent king=Patient |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
cure the king in about a fortnight
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cure | cure | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 king | det |
| 3 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 cure | obj |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 fortnight | case |
| 5 | about | about | ADV | _ | 7 fortnight | advmod |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 fortnight | det |
| 7 | fortnight | fortnight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 cure | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cure | imperative | you not said here | the king | fortnight | vn free-10.6.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer king=Source |
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice
make a healing slipper and nurse the king back to full health over the coming season
The tree, 16 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 slipper | det |
| 3 | healing | healing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 slipper | compound |
| 4 | slipper | slipper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 make | obj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 nurse | cc |
| 6 | nurse | nurse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 slipper | conj |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 king | det |
| 8 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 make | obj |
| 9 | back | back | ADV | _ | 12 health | advmod |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 health | case |
| 11 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 health | amod |
| 12 | health | health | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 make | obl |
| 13 | over | over | ADP | _ | 16 season | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 season | det |
| 15 | coming | come | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 season | amod |
| 16 | season | season | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 make | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | imperative | you not said here | a healing slipper and nurse | season | to full health | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset slipper=Beneficiary king=Product | ||
| 2 | come | gerund | vn escape-51.1-1 «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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1196-pg3027-part62/t12/