Test 5 · ★ · Fairy Book, The Old Woman and the Prince: a condemned yout…

Did the old woman save him by proper magic or what?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: old woman · What happens: save · To what, where: him

This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 1280 «Fairy Book, The Old Woman and the Prince: a condemned youth wins a strange marriage and proves he is the king's true son» 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	Did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 save	aux
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 woman	det
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 woman	amod
4	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 save	nsubj
5	save	save	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 save	obj
7	by	by	ADP	_	9 magic	case
8	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 magic	amod
9	magic	magic	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 save	obl
10	or	or	CCONJ	_	11 what	cc
11	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 magic	nmod
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 save	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	save	past · do-support	the old woman	him = he				by proper magic	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme

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, she paid the guards off

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 paid	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 paid	nsubj
4	paid	pay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 guards	det
6	guards	guard	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 paid	obj
7	off	off	ADP	_	4 paid	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pay off	past	she	the guards					vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent guard=Asset

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

She knew his secret and made a deal

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 knew	nsubj
2	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 secret	nmod:poss
4	secret	secret	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 knew	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 made	cc
6	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 knew	conj
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 deal	det
8	deal	deal	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 made	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	know	past	She	his secret					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer secret=Stimulus
2	make	past	She not said here	a deal					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset deal=Product

Option 3

Yeah, pure magic

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 magic	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 magic	punct
3	pure	pure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 magic	amod
4	magic	magic	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

She knew his secret, did a deal

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 knew	nsubj
2	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 secret	nmod:poss
4	secret	secret	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 knew	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 did	punct
6	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 knew	conj
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 deal	det
8	deal	deal	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 did	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	know	past	She	his secret					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer secret=Stimulus
2	do	past	She not said here	a deal					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent deal=Eventuality

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/1280-pg3454-part5/t5/