Test 10 · ★ · Orange Fairy Book, Moti: Moti rides to war on a wobbly pon…

What did Moti make the officer do, go fetch the king?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Moti, officer · What happens: make, do, go, fetch · To what, where: officer, king

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1301 «Orange Fairy Book, Moti: Moti rides to war on a wobbly pony and frightens a king into surrender.» 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 make	obj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 make	aux
3	Moti	Moti	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 make	nsubj
4	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 officer	det
6	officer	officer	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 make	obj
7	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 make	xcomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 go	punct
9	go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	4 make	parataxis
10	fetch	fetch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 go	xcomp
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 king	det
12	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 fetch	obj
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 make	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	make	past · do-support	Moti	the officer	tree rules
2	do	infinitive	the officer not said here		vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	go	infinitive			vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	fetch	infinitive		the king	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent king=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

Yeah, go and get the king and bring him here quick

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	3 go	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 get	cc
5	get	get	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 go	conj
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 king	det
7	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 get	obj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 bring	cc
9	bring	bring	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 go	conj
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 bring	obj
11	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	9 bring	advmod
12	quick	quick	ADV	_	9 bring	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	go	imperative	you not said here					vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	get	infinitive	you not said here	the king				vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer king=Stimulus
3	bring	infinitive	you not said here		king	here	quick property	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument he=Destination

Option 2

Yeah, bring the king back

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	3 bring	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	bring	bring	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 king	det
5	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 bring	obj
6	back	back	ADV	_	3 bring	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bring back	imperative	you not said here		the king				vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument king=Destination

Option 3

Yeah, go and fetch the king right now, mate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	3 go	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 fetch	cc
5	fetch	fetch	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 go	conj
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 king	det
7	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 fetch	obj
8	right	right	ADV	_	9 now	advmod
9	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 fetch	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 mate	punct
11	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 go	vocative

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	imperative	you not said here					mate vocative	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	fetch	infinitive	you not said here	the king			now		vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent king=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, go fetch the king

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	3 go	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	fetch	fetch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 go	xcomp
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 king	det
6	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fetch	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	imperative	you not said here						vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	fetch	infinitive	you not said here	the king					vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent king=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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