Test 5 · ★ · Blue Fairy Book, The White Cat, part 38: the Prince dines…

Wait, the Prince rode a wooden horse, like, a actual horse made of wood?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, Prince · What happens: wait, ride, make · To what, where: wooden horse, actual horse

This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 1451 «Blue Fairy Book, The White Cat, part 38: the Prince dines with the White Cat and goes home with a tiny dog» 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	Wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 rode	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Prince	det
4	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 rode	nsubj
5	rode	ride	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Wait	conj
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 horse	det
7	wooden	wooden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 horse	amod
8	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 rode	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 horse	punct
10	like	like	INTJ	_	14 horse	discourse
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 like	punct
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 horse	det
13	actual	actual	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 horse	amod
14	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 rode	obl
15	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 horse	acl
16	of	of	ADP	_	17 wood	case
17	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 made	obl
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	ride	past	the Prince	a wooden horse	a actual horse obl	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Theme
3	make	participle		a actual horse not said here	of wood	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset

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 right answer

Yeah, it pranced off like a hunter, sick!

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 pranced	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 pranced	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 pranced	nsubj
4	pranced	prance	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	off	off	ADP	_	4 pranced	compound:prt
6	like	like	ADP	_	8 hunter	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 hunter	det
8	hunter	hunter	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 pranced	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 sick	punct
10	sick	sick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 hunter	amod
11	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 pranced	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	prance off	past	it					like a hunter	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

Yeah, it trotted off like a wild stag, bruv

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 trotted	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 trotted	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 trotted	nsubj
4	trotted	trot	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	off	off	ADP	_	4 trotted	compound:prt
6	like	like	ADP	_	9 stag	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 stag	det
8	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 stag	amod
9	stag	stag	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 trotted	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 bruv	punct
11	bruv	bruv	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 stag	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	trot off	past	it					like a wild stag and bruv	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Nah, it was a real horse

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	7 horse	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 horse	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 horse	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 horse	det
6	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 horse	amod
7	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	it	a real horse					tree rules

Option 4

Yeah, sick, it pranced

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	3 sick	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 sick	punct
3	sick	sick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 pranced	punct
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 pranced	nsubj:pass
6	pranced	prance	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 sick	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	prance	participle · passive		it					vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

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