Test 8 · ★ · Yellow Fairy Book, The Blue Bird: the traitors are forgive…

Yo, why did the King have to bounce to the battlefield?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: King · What happens: have, bounce · To what, where: battlefield

This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 1528 «Yellow Fairy Book, The Blue Bird: the traitors are forgiven, the happy ending comes, and a new tale begins» 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	Yo	yo	INTJ	_	7 have	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yo	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	7 have	advmod
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 have	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 King	det
6	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 have	nsubj
7	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	to	to	PART	_	9 bounce	mark
9	bounce	bounce	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 have	xcomp
10	to	to	ADP	_	12 battlefield	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 battlefield	det
12	battlefield	battlefield	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 bounce	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 have	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past · do-support	the King						tree rules
2	bounce	to-infinitive	the King not said here			the battlefield			vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to battlefield=Destination

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

A neighbor wanted his crown and land

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 neighbor	det
2	neighbor	neighbor	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 wanted	nsubj
3	wanted	want	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	5 crown	nmod:poss
5	crown	crown	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 wanted	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 land	cc
7	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 crown	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	a neighbor	neighbor's crown and land					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot crown=Theme
2	crown		neighbor						nom crown «communication transitive»: poss=agent

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

The enemy was coming with a huge army

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 enemy	det
2	enemy	enemy	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 coming	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 coming	aux
4	coming	come	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	with	with	ADP	_	8 army	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 army	det
7	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 army	amod
8	army	army	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 coming	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past · progressive	the enemy					with a huge army	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

The rebels had burned the western town

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 rebels	det
2	rebels	rebel	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 burned	nsubj:pass
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 burned	aux
4	burned	burn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 town	det
6	western	western	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 town	amod
7	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 burned	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	burn	past · perfect · passive		the rebels					tree rules

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

To hunt

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 hunt	mark
2	hunt	hunt	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hunt	to-infinitive							vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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