Test 9 · ★ · Yellow Fairy Book, Mayblossom, part 4: the Princess spies…

why did the King build a tower with no windows, like was he being extra?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: King · What happens: build, be · To what, where: tower

This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 1507 «Yellow Fairy Book, Mayblossom, part 4: the Princess spies Fanfaronade through a peep-hole and falls for him» 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	5 build	advmod
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 build	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 King	det
4	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 build	nsubj
5	build	build	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 tower	det
7	tower	tower	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 build	obj
8	with	with	ADP	_	10 windows	case
9	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	10 windows	det
10	windows	window	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 build	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 extra	punct
12	like	like	SCONJ	_	16 extra	mark
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 extra	cop
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 extra	nsubj
15	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 extra	cop
16	extra	extra	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 build	conj
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 build	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	build	past · do-support	the King	a tower				with no windows	vn base-97.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent tower=Theme with window=Source
2	is	past	King					extra property	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

to hide her

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	2 hide	mark
2	hide	hide	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 hide	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hide	to-infinitive		her = she					vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

to keep her safe from harm

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	2 keep	mark
2	keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 keep	obj
4	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 keep	xcomp
5	from	from	ADP	_	6 harm	case
6	harm	harm	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 keep	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	to-infinitive			her = she	harm		safe property	vn forbid-64.4 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer she=Beneficiary from harm=Eventuality

Option 3

so she would not get hurt

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	so	so	ADV	_	6 hurt	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 hurt	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 hurt	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 hurt	advmod
5	get	get	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 hurt	aux:pass
6	hurt	hurt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not hurt	would · passive		she					vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

Option 4

to keep her warm

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	2 keep	mark
2	keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 keep	obj
4	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 keep	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	to-infinitive		her = she				warm property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent her=Theme

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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