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Test 6 · ★ · Fairy Book, The Golden Hen, part 37: a gardener's boy sets…

Was the prince a spoilt kid or what? How was he with his way?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: kid · What happens: be · To what, where: prince

This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 1236 «Fairy Book, The Golden Hen, part 37: a gardener's boy sets out to find a golden hen» 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

Sentence 1: Was the prince a spoilt kid or what?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 prince	cop
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 prince	det
3	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 kid	csubj
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 kid	det
5	spoilt	spoilt	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 kid	amod
6	kid	kid	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	or	or	CCONJ	_	8 what	cc
8	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 kid	conj
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 kid	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the prince					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.

Sentence 2: How was he with his way?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	6 way	advmod
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 way	cop
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 way	nsubj
4	with	with	ADP	_	6 way	case
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 way	nmod:poss
6	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 way	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	kid					with kid's way	tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

spoilt rotten and never once told no

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	spoilt	spoilt	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 rotten	amod
2	rotten	rotten	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 told	advcl
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 told	cc
4	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	5 once	advmod
5	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	6 told	advmod
6	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	6 told	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past		no				once property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent no=Recipient

Option 2

spoilt and allowed his way by all his servants

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	spoilt	spoilt	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 and	amod
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 allowed	cc
3	allowed	allow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 way	nmod:poss
5	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 allowed	obj
6	by	by	ADP	_	9 servants	case
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	9 servants	det:predet
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 servants	nmod:poss
9	servants	servant	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 allowed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	allow	past		his way				by his servants	vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Beneficiary

Option 3

hard working and quiet

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 working	amod
2	working	working	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 quiet	cc
4	quiet	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 working	conj

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

spoilt and allowed his way

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	spoilt	spoilt	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 allowed	nsubj:pass
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 allowed	cc
3	allowed	allow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 way	nmod:poss
5	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 allowed	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	allow	past · passive		spoilt					vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: subject=Goal way=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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