Test 3 · ★ · Fairy Book, The Prince and His Dog, part 41: the prince cl…
Who wanted the prince to get a puppy, proper?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: prince · What happens: want, get · To what, where: prince, puppy
This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 1240 «Fairy Book, The Prince and His Dog, part 41: the prince climbs to the princess's window» 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 | Who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 2 wanted | nsubj |
| 2 | wanted | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 prince | det |
| 4 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 wanted | obj |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 get | mark |
| 6 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 wanted | xcomp |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 puppy | det |
| 8 | puppy | puppy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 get | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 proper | punct |
| 10 | proper | proper | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 puppy | amod |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 wanted | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | want | past | the prince | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | get not said to happen | to-infinitive | the prince not said here | a puppy | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer puppy=Stimulus |
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
His old nurse
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 nurse | nmod:poss |
| 2 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 nurse | amod |
| 3 | nurse | nurse | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
The king himself
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 | root | root |
| 3 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes | 2 king | nmod:unmarked |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
The king's steward
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 steward | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 king | case |
| 4 | steward | steward | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
The king's own councillor, who advised him
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 | 5 councillor | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 king | case |
| 4 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 councillor | amod |
| 5 | councillor | councillor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 advised | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 advised | punct |
| 7 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 advised | nsubj |
| 8 | advised | advise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 advised | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | advise speech: other | past | the king's own councillor | king | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient |
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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