Test 12 · ★ · Fairy Tales, Puss in Boots, part 34: the cat tricks the ki…
Skint miller's son, so what's the cat's big plan?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: son · What happens: be · To what, where: big plan
This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 1447 «Fairy Tales, Puss in Boots, part 34: the cat tricks the king and the ogre» 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 | Skint | skint | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 miller | amod |
| 2 | miller | miller | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 son | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 miller | case |
| 4 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 plan | punct |
| 6 | so | so | ADV | _ | 13 plan | advmod |
| 7 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 13 plan | nsubj |
| 8 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 plan | cop |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 cat | det |
| 10 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 plan | nmod:poss |
| 11 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 10 cat | case |
| 12 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 plan | amod |
| 13 | plan | plan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 son | appos |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 son | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Skint miller's son | the cat's big plan | tree rules |
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
to win the king's favour for his master and gain land
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | to | to | PART | _ | 2 win | mark |
| 2 | win | win | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 king | det |
| 4 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 favour | nmod:poss |
| 5 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 4 king | case |
| 6 | favour | favour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 win | obj |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 master | case |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 master | nmod:poss |
| 9 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 win | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 gain | cc |
| 11 | gain | gain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 win | conj |
| 12 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 gain | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | win | to-infinitive | the king's favour | for king's master | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent favour=Theme for master=Beneficiary | ||||
| 2 | gain | present | land | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent land=Theme | |||||
| 3 | favour | the king | nom favour «feeling transitive»: poss=agent |
Option 2
to get the king to like his master
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | to | to | PART | _ | 2 get | mark |
| 2 | get | get | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 king | det |
| 4 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 get | obj |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 like | mark |
| 6 | like | like | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 get | xcomp |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 master | nmod:poss |
| 8 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 like | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | to-infinitive | the king | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | like | to-infinitive | the king not said here | king's master | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot master=Theme |
Option 3
to win the king's favour for his master by any trick at all
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | to | to | PART | _ | 2 win | mark |
| 2 | win | win | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 king | det |
| 4 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 favour | nmod:poss |
| 5 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 4 king | case |
| 6 | favour | favour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 win | obj |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 master | case |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 master | nmod:poss |
| 9 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 win | obl |
| 10 | by | by | ADP | _ | 12 trick | case |
| 11 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 12 trick | det |
| 12 | trick | trick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 win | obl |
| 13 | at | at | ADP | _ | 14 all | case |
| 14 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 12 trick | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | win | to-infinitive | the king's favour | for king's master; by any trick at all | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent favour=Theme for master=Beneficiary | ||||
| 2 | favour | the king | nom favour «feeling transitive»: poss=agent |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
to win the king's favour for his master
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | to | to | PART | _ | 2 win | mark |
| 2 | win | win | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 king | det |
| 4 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 favour | nmod:poss |
| 5 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 4 king | case |
| 6 | favour | favour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 win | obj |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 master | case |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 master | nmod:poss |
| 9 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 win | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | win | to-infinitive | the king's favour | for king's master | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent favour=Theme for master=Beneficiary | ||||
| 2 | favour | the king | nom favour «feeling transitive»: poss=agent |
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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