Test 6 · ★ · Fairy Tales, Prince Darling, part 65: Darling kicks his do…
Why did Darling want to lock Celia up?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · What happens: want, lock up · To what, where: Celia
This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 1478 «Fairy Tales, Prince Darling, part 65: Darling kicks his dog, is pricked by the ring, and Celia vanishes from her locked room» 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 | 4 want | advmod |
| 2 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 want | aux |
| 3 | Darling | darling | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 want | amod |
| 4 | want | want | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 lock | mark |
| 6 | lock | lock | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 want | xcomp |
| 7 | Celia | Celia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 lock | obj |
| 8 | up | up | ADP | _ | 6 lock | compound:prt |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 want | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | want | past · do-support | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | lock up not said to happen | to-infinitive | Celia | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent celia=Patient |
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
Cause she mocked his fine clothes
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cause | cause | SCONJ | _ | 3 mocked | mark |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 mocked | nsubj |
| 3 | mocked | mock | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 clothes | nmod:poss |
| 5 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 clothes | amod |
| 6 | clothes | clothes | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 3 mocked | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mock | past | she | his fine clothes | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clothes=Theme |
Option 2
Cause she laughed at his big ring
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cause | cause | SCONJ | _ | 3 laughed | mark |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 laughed | nsubj |
| 3 | laughed | laugh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 ring | case |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 ring | nmod:poss |
| 6 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 ring | amod |
| 7 | ring | ring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 laughed | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | laugh | past | she | his big ring | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 3
Cause she was rude
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cause | cause | SCONJ | _ | 4 rude | mark |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 rude | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 rude | cop |
| 4 | rude | rude | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | she | rude property | tree rules |
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Cause she dissed him and wouldn't marry him
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cause | cause | SCONJ | _ | 3 dissed | mark |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 dissed | nsubj |
| 3 | dissed | dis | 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 dissed | obj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 marry | cc |
| 6 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 marry | aux |
| 7 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 marry | advmod |
| 8 | marry | marry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 dissed | conj |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 marry | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dis | past | she | him = he | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not marry | would | she 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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