Test 4 · ★ · Fairy Book, The Prince and His Dog, part 41: the prince cl…

What did the prince want when he saw the dog across the moat?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: prince · What happens: do, want, see · To what, where: dog, moat

This is test 4 · ★ 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	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 prince	det
4	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 want	nsubj
5	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 did	ccomp
6	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	8 saw	advmod
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 saw	nsubj
8	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 want	ccomp
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 dog	det
10	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 saw	obj
11	across	across	ADP	_	13 moat	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 moat	det
13	moat	moat	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 saw	obl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	do	past				tree rules
2	want	present	the prince			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3	see	past	prince	the dog	the moat	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer dog=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 · ← Mova's choice

A ride home

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 ride	det
2	ride	ride	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	home	home	ADV	_	2 ride	advmod

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

Option 2

To play with the creature

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 play	mark
2	play	play	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	with	with	ADP	_	5 creature	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 creature	det
5	creature	creature	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 play	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	play	to-infinitive						with the creature	vn play-114.2-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent with creature=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

To have one just like it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 have	mark
2	have	have	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 have	obj
4	just	just	ADV	_	6 it	advmod
5	like	like	ADP	_	6 it	case
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 have	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	to-infinitive		one				like it	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Patient

Option 4

To cross the moat quickly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 cross	mark
2	cross	cross	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 moat	det
4	moat	moat	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 cross	obj
5	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	2 cross	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cross	to-infinitive		the moat				quickly property	vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent moat=Patient

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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