Test 12 · ★ · Fairy Tales (pg3282), The Prince and the Crocodile: the he…

So the princess went back home on the donkey, sick?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: princess · What happens: go back

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 1242 «Fairy Tales (pg3282), The Prince and the Crocodile: the herb saves the prince from the crocodile» 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	So	so	ADV	_	4 went	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 princess	det
3	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 went	nsubj
4	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	back	back	ADV	_	4 went	advmod
6	home	home	ADV	_	4 went	advmod
7	on	on	ADP	_	9 donkey	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 donkey	det
9	donkey	donkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 went	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 sick	punct
11	sick	sick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 went	parataxis
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 went	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go back	past	the princess					on the donkey; home property	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient

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

Nah, it walked off very slowly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 walked	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 walked	nsubj
4	walked	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	off	off	ADP	_	4 walked	compound:prt
6	very	very	ADV	_	7 slowly	advmod
7	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	4 walked	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	walk off	past	it					slowly property	vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

Nah, it refused to move and stood there braying at the sand for a whole hour

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 refused	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 refused	nsubj
4	refused	refuse	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 move	mark
6	move	move	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 refused	xcomp
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 stood	cc
8	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 refused	conj
9	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 stood	advmod
10	braying	bray	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 stood	advcl
11	at	at	ADP	_	13 sand	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 sand	det
13	sand	sand	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 braying	obl
14	for	for	ADP	_	17 hour	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 hour	det
16	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 hour	amod
17	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 braying	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	refuse	past	it				vn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	not move	to-infinitive					vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
3	stand	past		there			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	bray	gerund			hour	at the sand	vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Agent at sand=Stimulus

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Yeah, it trotted home quietly now

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 trotted	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 trotted	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 trotted	nsubj
4	trotted	trot	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	home	home	ADV	_	4 trotted	advmod
6	quietly	quietly	ADV	_	4 trotted	advmod
7	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 trotted	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	trot	past	it				now	home, quietly property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, it brayed and galloped off fast

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 brayed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 brayed	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 brayed	nsubj
4	brayed	bray	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 galloped	cc
6	galloped	gallop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 brayed	conj
7	off	off	ADP	_	6 galloped	compound:prt
8	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 galloped	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bray	past	it						vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	gallop off	past						fast property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1242-pg3282-part43/t12/