Test 7 · ★ · Celtic Fairy Tales, The Battle of the Birds, part 46: Pero…

Why did the king's son wish he hadn't opened the bundle early?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: son wish, king · What happens: do, not open, wish · To what, where: son wish, king

This is test 7 · ★ 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	2 did	advmod
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 king	det
4	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 wish	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 king	case
6	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 wish	compound
7	wish	wish	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 did	obj
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 opened	nsubj:pass
9	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 opened	aux
10	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 opened	advmod
11	opened	open	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 wish	acl:relcl
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 bundle	det
13	bundle	bundle	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 opened	obj
14	early	early	ADV	Degree=Pos	2 did	advmod
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	do	past		the king's son wish	early property	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wish=Eventuality
2	not open	past · perfect · passive	the king's son wish not said here	king		vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme bundle=Destination
3	wish		the king			nom wish «feeling intransitive»: poss=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

The castle had vanished into the mist

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 castle	det
2	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 vanished	nsubj
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 vanished	aux
4	vanished	vanish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	into	into	ADP	_	7 mist	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 mist	det
7	mist	mist	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 vanished	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	vanish	past · perfect	the castle			the mist			vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

The giant had come to claim his prize early

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 giant	det
2	giant	giant	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 come	nsubj
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 come	aux
4	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 claim	mark
6	claim	claim	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 come	advcl
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 prize	nmod:poss
8	prize	prize	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 claim	obj
9	early	early	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 claim	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past · perfect	the giant						vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	claim speech: other	to-infinitive	the giant not said here	giant's prize				early property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent prize=Topic

Option 3

It was too early

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 early	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 early	cop
3	too	too	ADV	_	4 early	advmod
4	early	early	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	It					early property	tree rules

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

The castle was in the middle of the forest

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 castle	det
2	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 middle	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 middle	cop
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 middle	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 middle	det
6	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 forest	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 forest	det
9	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 middle	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the castle			the middle		of the forest	tree rules

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