Test 1 · ★ · Fairy Tales, The White Cat: the Prince cuts off the cat's…

bruv the Prince was proper sobbing when that cat asked him to chop her head off, so what did he offer instead

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: bruv, cat, he · What happens: be, sob, ask, chop off, offer · To what, where: him, head

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 1453 «Fairy Tales, The White Cat: the Prince cuts off the cat's head and the spell breaks» 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	bruv	bruv	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 proper	nsubj
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Prince	det
3	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 bruv	appos
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 proper	cop
5	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	sobbing	sob	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 proper	advcl
7	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	10 asked	advmod
8	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	9 cat	det
9	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 asked	nsubj
10	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 sobbing	advcl
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 asked	iobj
12	to	to	PART	_	13 chop	mark
13	chop	chop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 asked	xcomp
14	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 head	nmod:poss
15	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 chop	obj
16	off	off	ADV	_	13 chop	advmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 offer	punct
18	so	so	ADV	_	22 offer	advmod
19	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	22 offer	obj
20	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 offer	aux
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 offer	nsubj
22	offer	offer	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 proper	conj
23	instead	instead	ADV	_	22 offer	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	bruv			proper property	tree rules
2	sob	gerund	bruv not said here				vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	ask speech: ask	past	that cat		him = he		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
4	chop off not said to happen	to-infinitive	that cat not said here	cat's head		off property	vn carve-21.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Patient
5	offer	past · do-support	he			instead property	vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent what=Theme

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

a gift of gold, plus some food

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 gift	det
2	gift	gift	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 gold	case
4	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 gift	nmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 food	punct
6	plus	plus	CCONJ	_	8 food	cc
7	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	8 food	det
8	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 gift	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	gift			gold					nom gift «possession transitive»: of=patient

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

anything else she wanted, like a proper task or a long journey with her dogs

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	16 dogs	compound
2	else	else	ADV	_	1 anything	advmod
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 wanted	nsubj
4	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 anything	acl:relcl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 task	punct
6	like	like	ADP	_	9 task	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 task	det
8	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 task	amod
9	task	task	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 anything	conj
10	or	or	CCONJ	_	13 journey	cc
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 journey	det
12	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 journey	amod
13	journey	journey	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 task	conj
14	with	with	ADP	_	15 her	case
15	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 anything	nmod
16	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	she						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot

Option 3

anything else she wanted, like a proper task, even a dangerous quest to the mountains

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	4 wanted	nsubj
2	else	else	ADV	_	1 anything	advmod
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 wanted	nsubj
4	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 task	punct
6	like	like	ADP	_	9 task	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 task	det
8	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 task	amod
9	task	task	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wanted	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 quest	punct
11	even	even	ADV	_	14 quest	advmod
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 quest	det
13	dangerous	dangerous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 quest	amod
14	quest	quest	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 task	conj
15	to	to	ADP	_	17 mountains	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 mountains	det
17	mountains	mountain	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 quest	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	anything	a proper task and a dangerous quest to the mountains					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot task=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

anything else she wanted, like a proper task

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	4 wanted	nsubj
2	else	else	ADV	_	1 anything	advmod
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 wanted	nsubj
4	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 task	punct
6	like	like	ADP	_	9 task	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 task	det
8	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 task	amod
9	task	task	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wanted	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	anything						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot

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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