Test 12 · ★ · Celtic Fairy Tales, The Battle of the Birds, part 46: Pero…

What did the king tell the giant to let his mum do first?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: king, mum · What happens: tell, let, do · To what, where: giant, mum · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 1321 «Celtic Fairy Tales, The Battle of the Birds, part 46: Peronnik saves Nantes with the magic bowl, then a king's son wins a bundle and a giant's bargain» 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	5 tell	obj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 tell	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 king	det
4	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 tell	nsubj
5	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 giant	det
7	giant	giant	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 tell	obj
8	to	to	PART	_	9 let	mark
9	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 tell	ccomp
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 mum	nmod:poss
11	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 let	obj
12	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 let	xcomp
13	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	12 do	advmod
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 tell	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past · do-support	the king		the giant		tree rules
2	let not said to happen	to-infinitive		king's mum			tree rules
3	do	infinitive	king's mum not said here			first property	vn act-114-1 «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

Sew the boy a coat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sew	sew	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 boy	det
3	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Sew	obj
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 coat	det
5	coat	coat	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Sew	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sew	imperative	you not said here	a coat	the boy				vn build-26.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP PP»: agent=Agent boy=Beneficiary coat=Product

Option 2

Wash the children in order

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Wash	wash	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 children	det
3	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Wash	obj
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 order	case
5	order	order	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Wash	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wash	imperative	you not said here	the children		order			vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Patient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Put the boy in order

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Put	put	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 boy	det
3	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Put	obj
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 order	case
5	order	order	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Put	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	put	imperative	you not said here	the boy		order			vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent boy=Theme in order=Destination

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Dress him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Dress	dress	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Dress	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dress	imperative	you not said here	him = he					vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient

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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