Test 8 · ★ · Lang's Fairy Book, The White Slipper, part 62: the king lo…

why'd so many rich dudes keep searching the river?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: many rich dudes · What happens: keep, search · To what, where: river

This is test 8 · ★ 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	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	7 keep	advmod
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 keep	aux
3	so	so	ADV	_	7 keep	advmod
4	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 dudes	amod
5	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 dudes	amod
6	dudes	dude	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 keep	nsubj
7	keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	searching	search	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 keep	xcomp
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 river	det
10	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 searching	obj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 keep	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	would	many rich dudes						tree rules
2	search	gerund	many rich dudes not said here	the river					vn search-35.2 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent river=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 · ← Mova's choice

for the gold

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	for	for	ADP	_	3 gold	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 gold	det
3	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

they all wanted the princess and crown

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 wanted	nsubj
2	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	1 they	det
3	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 princess	det
5	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 wanted	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 crown	cc
7	crown	crown	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 princess	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	they	the princess and crown					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot princess=Theme

Option 3

the king was paying them handsomely

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 king	det
2	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 paying	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 paying	aux
4	paying	pay	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 paying	obj
6	handsomely	handsomely	ADV	_	4 paying	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pay	past · progressive	the king	them = they				handsomely property	vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Asset

Option 4

they were bored

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 bored	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 bored	cop
3	bored	bored	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

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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