Test 12 · ★ · Blue Fairy Book, The Bronze Ring, part 1: the gardener's s…

What did the young man ask for in the end, bro?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: young man · What happens: ask

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 1414 «Blue Fairy Book, The Bronze Ring, part 1: the gardener's son cures the old King and asks for a ring» 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	6 ask	obj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 ask	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 man	det
4	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 man	amod
5	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 ask	nsubj
6	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	for	for	ADP	_	10 end	case
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 end	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 end	det
10	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 ask	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 bro	punct
12	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 end	conj
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 ask	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	past · do-support	the young man				for the end and bro		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent what=Recipient

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

Gold, no cap

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 cap	punct
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 cap	det
4	cap	cap	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Gold	appos

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

Option 2

The bronze cup that grants wishes, no cap

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 cup	det
2	bronze	bronze	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 cup	compound
3	cup	cup	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 grants	nsubj
5	grants	grant	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 cup	acl:relcl
6	wishes	wish	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 grants	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 cap	punct
8	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	9 cap	det
9	cap	cap	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 cup	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grant	present	the bronze cup and no cap	wishes					vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent wish=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

The bronze ring that grants wishes, no cap

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 ring	det
2	bronze	bronze	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 ring	amod
3	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 grants	nsubj
5	grants	grant	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 ring	acl:relcl
6	wishes	wish	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 grants	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 cap	punct
8	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	9 cap	det
9	cap	cap	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 ring	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grant	present	the bronze ring and no cap	wishes					vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent wish=Theme

Option 4

The bronze ring that grants wishes, no cap, and the princess's hand too

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 ring	det
2	bronze	bronze	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 ring	amod
3	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 grants	nsubj
5	grants	grant	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 ring	acl:relcl
6	wishes	wish	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 grants	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 cap	punct
8	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	9 cap	det
9	cap	cap	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 wishes	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 hand	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 hand	cc
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 princess	det
13	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 hand	nmod:poss
14	's	's	PART	_	13 princess	case
15	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 grants	obl
16	too	too	ADV	_	5 grants	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grant	present	the bronze ring	wishes no cap				the princess's hand obl	vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent wish=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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