Test 14 · ★ · Fairy Book, The Red Knight: the prince proves his deeds an…

Why was the princess in such a hurry to the hall?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: princess · What happens: be

This is test 14 · ★ 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Rel	root	root
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Why	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 princess	det
4	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Why	nsubj
5	in	in	ADP	_	8 hurry	case
6	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	8 hurry	det:predet
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 hurry	det
8	hurry	hurry	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 princess	nmod
9	to	to	ADP	_	11 hall	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 hall	det
11	hall	hall	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 hurry	nmod
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Why	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the princess in such hurry to the hall					why property	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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

She wanted to expose the Red Knight

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 wanted	nsubj
2	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 expose	mark
4	expose	expose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 wanted	xcomp
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Knight	det
6	Red	Red	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 Knight	flat
7	Knight	Knight	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 expose	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	She						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	expose not said to happen	to-infinitive	She not said here	the Red Knight					vn indicate-78 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot knight=Topic

Option 2

She forgot her violin

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 forgot	nsubj
2	forgot	forget	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 violin	nmod:poss
4	violin	violin	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 forgot	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	forget	past	She	her violin					tree rules

Option 3

She wanted to dance

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 wanted	nsubj
2	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 dance	mark
4	dance	dance	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 wanted	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	She						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	dance not said to happen	to-infinitive	She not said here						vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

She was starving

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 starving	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 starving	aux
3	starving	starve	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	starve	past · progressive	She						tree rules

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