Test 4 · ★ · Celtic Fairy Tales, The Three Crowns, part 17: the younges…

Was the prince mannerly at dinner, or did he dig in?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: he · What happens: be, dig in · To what, where: dinner

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 1292 «Celtic Fairy Tales, The Three Crowns, part 17: the youngest prince goes down the well and the pair escape the giants» 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	Was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 mannerly	cop
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 prince	det
3	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 mannerly	obl:unmarked
4	mannerly	mannerly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 dinner	case
6	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 mannerly	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 dig	punct
8	or	or	CCONJ	_	11 dig	cc
9	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 dig	aux
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 dig	nsubj
11	dig	dig	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 mannerly	conj
12	in	in	ADP	_	11 dig	compound:prt
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 mannerly	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past				dinner		the prince obl:unmarked; mannerly property	tree rules
2	dig in	past · do-support	he						vn create-26.4-1-1 «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 · ← Mova's choice

He asked for more food

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 asked	nsubj
2	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	for	for	ADP	_	5 food	case
4	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 food	amod
5	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 asked	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	past	He					for more food	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

He waited to be asked

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 waited	nsubj
2	waited	wait	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	5 asked	mark
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 asked	aux:pass
5	asked	ask	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 waited	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	past	He						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	ask speech: ask	to-infinitive · passive	He not said here						vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»

Option 3

He ate straight away

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 ate	nsubj
2	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	straight	straight	ADV	_	4 away	advmod
4	away	away	ADV	_	2 ate	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	past	He					away property	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

He ate first

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 ate	nsubj
2	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	2 ate	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	past	He					first property	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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