Test 9 · ★ · Fairy Book, The Prince and His Dog, part 41: the prince cl…

What did the princess threaten to do, no joke?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: princess · What happens: threaten, do · To what, where: joke

This is test 9 · ★ 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	5 threaten	obj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 threaten	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 princess	det
4	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 threaten	nsubj
5	threaten	threaten	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 do	mark
7	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 threaten	xcomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 joke	punct
9	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	10 joke	det
10	joke	joke	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 do	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 threaten	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	threaten	past · do-support	the princess						tree rules
2	do not said to happen	to-infinitive	the princess not said here	no joke					vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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

Stop eating and drinking, and also refuse to see her father

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Stop	stop	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	eating	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	1 Stop	xcomp
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 drinking	cc
4	drinking	drink	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 eating	conj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 refuse	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 refuse	cc
7	also	also	ADV	_	8 refuse	advmod
8	refuse	refuse	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Stop	parataxis
9	to	to	PART	_	10 see	mark
10	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 refuse	xcomp
11	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 father	nmod:poss
12	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 see	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	stop	imperative	you not said here		vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
2	eat	gerund	you not said here		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	drink	gerund	you not said here		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	refuse	present			vn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
5	not see	to-infinitive		her father	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer father=Stimulus

Option 2

Starve

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Starve	starve	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	starve	imperative	you not said here						tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Stop eating and drinking

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Stop	stop	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	eating	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	1 Stop	xcomp
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 drinking	cc
4	drinking	drinking	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 eating	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stop	imperative	you not said here						vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
2	eat	gerund	you not said here						vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Refuse all her meals

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Refuse	refuse	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 meals	det:predet
3	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 meals	nmod:poss
4	meals	meal	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Refuse	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	refuse	imperative	you not said here	her meals					vn reject-77.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent meal=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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