Test 11 · ★ · Yellow Fairy Book, Princess Goldilocks, part 46: Charming…

What did the King want Charming to do?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: King, Charming · What happens: do, want · To what, where: Charming

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 1459 «Yellow Fairy Book, Princess Goldilocks, part 46: Charming is freed, sent to win the Princess, and helped on the road by a carp, a raven and an owl» 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	2 did	nsubj
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 King	det
4	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 want	nsubj
5	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 did	ccomp
6	Charming	Charming	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 want	obj
7	to	to	PART	_	8 do	mark
8	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 want	xcomp
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	do	past			tree rules
2	want	present	the King	Charming	tree rules
3	do not said to happen	to-infinitive	Charming not said here		vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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

Talk the Princess into marrying him and bring her back to the palace by Friday

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Talk	talk	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Princess	det
3	Princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Talk	obj
4	into	into	SCONJ	_	5 marrying	mark
5	marrying	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	1 Talk	advcl
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 marrying	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 bring	cc
8	bring	bring	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Talk	conj
9	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 bring	obj
10	back	back	ADV	_	8 bring	advmod
11	to	to	ADP	_	13 palace	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 palace	det
13	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 bring	obl
14	by	by	ADP	_	15 Friday	case
15	Friday	Friday	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 bring	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	talk	imperative	you not said here	the Princess			vn compel-59.1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent princess=Patient
2	marry	gerund	you not said here	him = he			vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient
3	bring back	infinitive	you not said here	Princess	the palace	friday	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme to palace=Destination

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Get the Princess to say yes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Get	get	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Princess	det
3	Princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Get	obj
4	to	to	PART	_	5 say	mark
5	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Get	xcomp
6	yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 say	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	imperative	you not said here	the Princess					tree rules
2	say speech: assert	to-infinitive	the Princess not said here						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent yes=Topic

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Talk the Princess into marrying him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Talk	talk	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Princess	det
3	Princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Talk	obj
4	into	into	SCONJ	_	5 marrying	mark
5	marrying	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	1 Talk	advcl
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 marrying	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	talk	imperative	you not said here	the Princess					vn compel-59.1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent princess=Patient
2	marry	gerund	you not said here	him = he					vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient

Option 4

Convince the Princess to wed him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Convince	convince	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Princess	det
3	Princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Convince	obj
4	to	to	PART	_	5 wed	mark
5	wed	wed	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Convince	xcomp
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 wed	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	convince	imperative	you not said here	the Princess					vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent princess=Patient clause=Result
2	wed	to-infinitive	you not said here	him = he					vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient

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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