Test 5 · ★ · The Brown Fairy Book, What the Rose did to the Cypress, pa…

Wait, he's a king doing a naked-foot walk?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, he, king · What happens: wait, be, do · To what, where: king, foot walk

This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 1200 «The Brown Fairy Book, What the Rose did to the Cypress, part 1: a prince chases a deer, gets lost in the desert and meets a barefoot stranger who is a lost king» 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	Wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 king	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 king	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 king	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 king	det
6	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Wait	obl
7	doing	do	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 king	acl
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 walk	det
9	naked	naked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 foot	amod
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 naked	punct
11	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 walk	compound
12	walk	walk	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 doing	obj
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is a	present	he	a king	tree rules
3	do	gerund	a king not said here	a foot walk	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent walk=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

Nah, he's just a beggar

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	7 beggar	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 beggar	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 beggar	cop
5	just	just	ADV	_	7 beggar	advmod
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 beggar	det
7	beggar	beggar	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	he	a beggar					tree rules

Option 2

Yeah, he lost all his money

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 lost	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 lost	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 lost	nsubj
4	lost	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 money	det:predet
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 money	nmod:poss
7	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lost	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	past	he	his money					vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Eventuality

Option 3

Nah, he's a faqir who's been fasting

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 faqir	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 faqir	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 faqir	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 faqir	det
6	faqir	faqir	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 fasting	nsubj
8	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 fasting	aux
9	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	10 fasting	aux
10	fasting	fast	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 faqir	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	he	a faqir					tree rules
2	fast	present · progressive	a faqir						tree rules

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

Yeah, he's a king who fell on hard times

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 king	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 king	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 king	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 king	det
6	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 fell	nsubj
8	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 king	acl:relcl
9	on	on	ADV	_	10 hard	advmod
10	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 times	amod
11	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 fell	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	he	a king					tree rules
2	fall on	past	a king				time		vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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