Test 9 · ★ · Fairy Book, A French Puck, part 16: the giant's soul is fo…

Blimey, why did the queen smash the egg?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Blimey · What happens: do, smash · To what, where: queen, egg

This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 1291 «Fairy Book, A French Puck, part 16: the giant's soul is found, then Puck starts his pranks» 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	Blimey	blimey	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 smash	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 did	advmod
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Blimey	acl:relcl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 queen	det
6	queen	queen	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obj
7	smash	smash	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 egg	det
9	egg	egg	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 smash	obj
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 smash	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past		the queen					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent queen=Eventuality
2	smash	present	Blimey	the egg					vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent egg=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 · ← Mova's choice

To hurt him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 hurt	mark
2	hurt	hurt	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 hurt	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hurt	to-infinitive		him = he					vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Patient

Option 2

To break the giant's spell

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 break	mark
2	break	break	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 giant	det
4	giant	giant	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 spell	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 giant	case
6	spell	spell	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 break	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	break	to-infinitive		the giant's spell					vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer spell=Patient
2	spell		the giant						nom spell «state transitive»: poss=agent

Option 3

For fun

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	For	for	ADP	_	2 fun	case
2	fun	fun	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

To kill the giant's soul

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 kill	mark
2	kill	kill	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 giant	det
4	giant	giant	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 soul	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 giant	case
6	soul	soul	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 kill	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	kill	to-infinitive		the giant's soul					vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent soul=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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