Test 3 · ★ · White Cat, Princess Felicia: a magic wedding and a palace…

Why would the Prince not just say he loved her?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: Prince · What happens: not say, love · To what, where: her · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 1450 «White Cat, Princess Felicia: a magic wedding and a palace for Bruno» 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	7 say	advmod
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 say	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Prince	det
4	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 say	nsubj
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 say	advmod
6	just	just	ADV	_	7 say	advmod
7	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 loved	nsubj
9	loved	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 say	ccomp
10	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 loved	obj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 say	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not say speech: assert	would	the Prince						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	love	past	Prince	her = she					vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus

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

He was shy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 shy	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 shy	cop
3	shy	shy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 2

He feared rejection now

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 feared	nsubj
2	feared	fear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	rejection	rejection	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 feared	obj
4	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 feared	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fear	past	He	rejection			now		vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer rejection=Stimulus

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

The spell kept him silent

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 spell	det
2	spell	spell	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 kept	nsubj
3	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 kept	obj
5	silent	silent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 kept	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	past	the spell	him = he				silent property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme

Option 4

The spell was too strong

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 spell	det
2	spell	spell	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 strong	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 strong	cop
4	too	too	ADV	_	5 strong	advmod
5	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

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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