Test 6 · ★ · The Blue Fairy Book, Blue Beard, part 1: a hungry dog beco…

How did the Prince get his crown back in the end?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Prince · What happens: get back, crown · To what, where: crown, end

This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 1480 «The Blue Fairy Book, Blue Beard, part 1: a hungry dog becomes a dove, and Blue Beard leaves his wife the keys» 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	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	5 get	advmod
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 get	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Prince	det
4	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 get	nsubj
5	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 crown	nmod:poss
7	crown	crown	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 get	obj
8	back	back	ADV	_	5 get	advmod
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 end	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 end	det
11	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 get	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 get	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get back	past · do-support	the Prince	Prince's crown			in the end		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer crown=Stimulus
2	crown		Prince						nom crown «communication transitive»: poss=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

He bought it off Suliman

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 bought	nsubj
2	bought	buy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 bought	obj
4	off	off	ADP	_	2 bought	compound:prt
5	Suliman	Suliman	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 bought	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	buy off	past	He	it					vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent it=Beneficiary suliman=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

He won it in a dance-off

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 won	nsubj
2	won	win	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 won	obj
4	in	in	ADP	_	8 off	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 off	det
6	dance	dance	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 off	compound
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 dance	punct
8	off	off	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 won	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	win	past	He	it		a dance off			vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

The Fairy zapped them to the palace, and Suliman handed it over

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Fairy	det
2	Fairy	fairy	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 zapped	nsubj
3	zapped	zap	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 zapped	obj
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 palace	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 palace	det
7	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 zapped	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 handed	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 handed	cc
10	Suliman	Suliman	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 handed	nsubj
11	handed	hand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 zapped	conj
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 handed	obj
13	over	over	ADP	_	11 handed	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	zap	past	the Fairy	them = they				to the palace	tree rules
2	hand over	past	Suliman	Fairy					vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 4

He nicked it from the hermit

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 nicked	nsubj
2	nicked	nick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 nicked	obj
4	from	from	ADP	_	6 hermit	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 hermit	det
6	hermit	hermit	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 nicked	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	nick	past	He	it		the hermit			vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent it=Theme from hermit=Source

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