Test 11 · ★ · Fairy Tales, The Turnip Princess, part 52: the maidens wit…

Why did the princess chuck flowers in the stream?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · What happens: do · To what, where: princess chuck flowers, stream

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 1251 «Fairy Tales, The Turnip Princess, part 52: the maidens wither, and the gnome's fresh turnips go missing» 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	2 did	advmod
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 flowers	det
4	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 flowers	compound
5	chuck	chuck	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 flowers	compound
6	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 did	obj
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 stream	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 stream	det
9	stream	stream	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 did	obl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past		the princess chuck flowers		the stream			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flower=Eventuality

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

To cool the stream in the summer heat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 cool	mark
2	cool	cool	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 stream	det
4	stream	stream	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 cool	obj
5	in	in	ADP	_	8 heat	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 heat	det
7	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 heat	compound
8	heat	heat	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 cool	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cool	to-infinitive		the stream		the summer heat			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent stream=Patient

Option 2

To hide them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 hide	mark
2	hide	hide	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 hide	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hide	to-infinitive		them = they					vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient

Option 3

For the bees

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	For	for	ADP	_	3 bees	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 bees	det
3	bees	bee	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

To pass the time and watch them float off

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 pass	mark
2	pass	pass	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 time	det
4	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 pass	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 watch	cc
6	watch	watch	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 pass	conj
7	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 watch	obj
8	float	float	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 watch	xcomp
9	off	off	ADP	_	8 float	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	pass	to-infinitive			time	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	watch	infinitive		them = they		tree rules
3	float off	infinitive	them = they not said here			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.

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