Test 7 · ★ · Blue Fairy Book, The Golden Branch, part 1: a prince refus…

test: Dude, why did Grumpy wanna marry his son to the lame girl?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: test, Grumpy · What happens: do, marry · To what, where: son

This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 1554 «Blue Fairy Book, The Golden Branch, part 1: a prince refuses a wedding and finds magic in his tower» 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	test	test	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 did	nsubj
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	3 Dude	punct
3	Dude	dude	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 test	conj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 did	punct
5	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	6 did	advmod
6	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	Grumpy	grumpy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 marry	nsubj
8	wanna	wanna	X	Foreign=Yes	9 marry	dep
9	marry	marry	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	6 did	parataxis
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 son	nmod:poss
11	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 marry	obj
12	to	to	ADP	_	15 girl	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 girl	det
14	lame	lame	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 girl	amod
15	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 marry	obl
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	test and Dude						vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	marry	infinitive	Grumpy	his son				to the lame girl	vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent son=Patient to girl=Co-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 · ← Mova's choice

because the lame girl's father promised him a huge army

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	because	because	SCONJ	_	7 promised	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 girl	det
3	lame	lame	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 girl	amod
4	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 father	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 girl	case
6	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 promised	nsubj
7	promised	promise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 promised	iobj
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 army	det
10	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 army	amod
11	army	army	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 promised	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	promise speech: promise	past	the lame girl's father	a huge army	him = he				vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent he=Goal army=Theme

Option 2

to gain more land

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	2 gain	mark
2	gain	gain	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 land	amod
4	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 gain	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	gain	to-infinitive		more land					vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent land=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

to get more powerful

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	2 get	mark
2	get	get	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	4 powerful	advmod
4	powerful	powerful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 get	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	to-infinitive						powerful property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

Option 4

to unite both kingdoms so he rules everything

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	2 unite	mark
2	unite	unite	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	4 kingdoms	det
4	kingdoms	kingdom	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 unite	obj
5	so	so	ADV	_	7 rules	advmod
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 rules	nsubj
7	rules	rule	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 unite	obl
8	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	2 unite	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	unite	to-infinitive		both kingdoms					tree rules
2	rule		he						tree rules

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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