Test 13 · ★ · Fairy Book, The Red Knight: the prince proves his deeds an…

What did the mermaid keep yelling at the prince to do?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: mermaid · What happens: do, keep, yell

This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 1230 «Fairy Book, The Red Knight: the prince proves his deeds and the wicked knight is hanged» 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 mermaid	det
4	mermaid	mermaid	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 keep	nsubj
5	keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 did	ccomp
6	yelling	yell	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 keep	xcomp
7	at	at	ADP	_	9 prince	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 prince	det
9	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 yelling	obl
10	to	to	PART	_	11 do	mark
11	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 yelling	advcl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	do	past			tree rules
2	keep	present	the mermaid		tree rules
3	yell speech: express	gerund	the mermaid not said here	at the prince	vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Agent at prince=Stimulus
4	do	to-infinitive	the mermaid not said here		vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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

"Sing a song"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Sing	punct
2	Sing	sing	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 song	det
4	song	song	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Sing	obj
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Sing	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sing speech: express in a quote	imperative	you not said here	a song					vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location song=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

"Listen! listen!"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Listen	punct
2	Listen	listen	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Listen	punct
4	listen	listen	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 Listen	conj
5	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Listen	punct
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Listen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	listen in a quote	imperative	you not said here						vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
2	listen in a quote	infinitive	you not said here						vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent

Option 3

"Go home now"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Go	punct
2	Go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	home	home	ADV	_	2 Go	advmod
4	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 Go	advmod
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Go	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go in a quote	imperative	you not said here				now	home property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

"Swim away fast"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Swim	punct
2	Swim	swim	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	away	away	ADV	_	2 Swim	advmod
4	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	2 Swim	advmod
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Swim	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	swim away in a quote	imperative	you not said here					away, fast property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «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.

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