Test 6 · ★ · Fairy Book, The Prince and His Dog, part 41: the prince cl…

What was the palace king obsessed with, lol?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: palace king · What happens: be, obsess · To what, where: palace king

This is test 6 · ★ 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	root	root
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 king	det
4	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 king	compound
5	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
6	obsessed	obsess	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 king	acl
7	with	with	ADP	_	6 obsessed	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct
9	lol	lol	INTJ	_	1 What	discourse
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	the palace king						tree rules
2	obsess	participle		the palace king not said here					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

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

Counting his coins daily

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Counting	count	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 coins	nmod:poss
3	coins	coin	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Counting	obj
4	daily	daily	ADV	_	1 Counting	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	count	gerund		his coins				daily property	vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent coin=Theme
2	coin		his = he						nom coin «possession transitive»: poss=agent

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Hunting stags each morning

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hunting	hunt	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	stags	stag	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Hunting	obj
3	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	4 morning	det
4	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Hunting	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hunt	gerund		stags			morning		vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stag=Theme

Option 3

Making riddles all day long and asking them of all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Making	make	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	riddles	riddle	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Making	obj
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 day	det
4	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Making	obj
5	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	1 Making	advmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 asking	cc
7	asking	ask	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Making	conj
8	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 asking	obj
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 all	case
10	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 asking	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	gerund		riddles			day	long property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset riddle=Product
2	ask speech: ask	gerund			riddles = riddle			of all	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Making riddles all day

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Making	make	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	riddles	riddle	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Making	obj
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 day	det
4	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Making	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	gerund		riddles			day		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset riddle=Product

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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