Test 6 · ★ · Yellow Fairy Book, Princess Goldilocks, part 46: Charming…

What did the owl do after she got free?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: she · What happens: do, get · To what, where: owl

This is test 6 · ★ 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 owl	det
4	owl	owl	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 did	obj
5	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 after	aux
6	after	after	SCONJ	_	8 got	mark
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 got	nsubj
8	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 did	advcl
9	free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 got	xcomp
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past		the owl					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent owl=Eventuality
2	get	past	she					free property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

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 · ✓ the right answer

Came back to say thanks

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	back	back	ADV	_	1 Came	advmod
3	to	to	PART	_	4 say	mark
4	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Came	advcl
5	thanks	thanks	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 say	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come back	past							vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	say speech: assert	to-infinitive		thanks					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent thanks=Topic

Option 2

Came back later to say thanks and bring a golden feather from the north

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Came	came	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 say	nsubj
2	back	back	ADV	_	5 say	advmod
3	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	5 say	advmod
4	to	to	PART	_	5 say	mark
5	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	thanks	thanks	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 say	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 bring	cc
8	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 say	conj
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 feather	det
10	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 feather	amod
11	feather	feather	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 bring	obj
12	from	from	ADP	_	14 north	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 north	det
14	north	north	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 bring	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	to-infinitive	Came	thanks				late property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent thanks=Topic
2	bring	infinitive	Came not said here	a golden feather		the north			vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent feather=Theme from north=Initial_Location

Option 3

Flew off to her nest and came back the next morning to say thanks to him

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	off	off	ADP	_	1 Flew	compound:prt
3	to	to	ADP	_	5 nest	case
4	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 nest	nmod:poss
5	nest	nest	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Flew	obl
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 came	cc
7	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Flew	conj
8	back	back	ADV	_	7 came	advmod
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 morning	det
10	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 morning	amod
11	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 came	obl:unmarked
12	to	to	PART	_	13 say	mark
13	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 came	advcl
14	thanks	thanks	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 say	obj
15	to	to	ADP	_	16 him	case
16	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 thanks	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	to whom	where	when	roles by
1	fly off	past			her nest		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to nest=Destination
2	come back	past				morning	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	say speech: assert	to-infinitive	thanks	him = he			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent thanks=Topic to he=Recipient

Option 4

Flew back to say hello

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	back	back	ADV	_	1 Flew	advmod
3	to	to	PART	_	4 say	mark
4	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Flew	xcomp
5	hello	hello	INTJ	_	4 say	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fly back	past							tree rules
2	say speech: assert	to-infinitive							vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent hello=Topic

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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