Test 3 · ★ · Fairy Tales (pg503), Prince Darling, part 66: a cursed pri…

Was the keeper a proper nice bloke to the Prince?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be · To what, where: keeper

This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 1479 «Fairy Tales (pg503), Prince Darling, part 66: a cursed prince becomes a monster and then a little 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	Was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 keeper	cop
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 keeper	det
3	keeper	keeper	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 bloke	det
5	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 bloke	amod
6	nice	nice	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 bloke	amod
7	bloke	bloke	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 keeper	appos
8	to	to	ADP	_	10 Prince	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Prince	det
10	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 bloke	nmod
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 keeper	punct

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

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

Yeah, he was kind and fair

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 kind	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 kind	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 kind	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 kind	cop
5	kind	kind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 fair	cc
7	fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 kind	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	he					kind property	tree rules
2	be		he not said here						tree rules

Option 2

Nah, he was quite strict

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 strict	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 strict	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 strict	cop
5	quite	quite	ADV	_	6 strict	advmod
6	strict	strict	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	he					strict property	tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Nah, he beat him for nothing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 beat	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 beat	nsubj
4	beat	beat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 beat	obj
6	for	for	ADP	_	7 nothing	case
7	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	4 beat	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	beat	past	he	him = he				for nothing	vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location he=Theme

Option 4

Nah, he beat him for nothing, then locked him in a dark cellar for weeks

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 beat	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 beat	nsubj
4	beat	beat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 beat	obj
6	for	for	ADP	_	7 nothing	case
7	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	4 beat	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 locked	punct
9	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	10 locked	advmod
10	locked	lock	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 beat	conj
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 locked	obj
12	in	in	ADP	_	15 cellar	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 cellar	det
14	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 cellar	amod
15	cellar	cellar	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 locked	obl
16	for	for	ADP	_	17 weeks	case
17	weeks	week	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 locked	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	beat	past	he	him = he				for nothing	vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location he=Theme
2	lock	past	he not said here	him = he		a dark cellar	then; week		vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient

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