Test 8 · ★ · Blue Fairy Book, The Golden Branch, part 1: a prince refus…

test: Bruv, why's the Prince chilling in the tower anyway?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be · To what, where: Prince chilling, tower

This is test 8 · ★ 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	root	root
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	3 Bruv	punct
3	Bruv	Bruv	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 test	appos
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 chilling	punct
5	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	9 chilling	advmod
6	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 chilling	cop
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 chilling	det
8	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 chilling	compound
9	chilling	chilling	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 Bruv	appos
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 tower	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 tower	det
12	tower	tower	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 chilling	nmod
13	anyway	anyway	ADV	_	9 chilling	advmod
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 test	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		the Prince chilling		the tower		anyway 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

he got banned for kissing the wrong maid

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	3 banned	nsubj:pass
2	got	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 banned	aux:pass
3	banned	ban	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	for	for	ADP	_	5 kissing	case
5	kissing	kiss	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 banned	obl
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 maid	det
7	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 maid	amod
8	maid	maid	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 kissing	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ban	past · passive		he					vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2	kiss	gerund		the wrong maid					vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent maid=Co-Agent

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

he refused to marry the lame girl and was locked up

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 refused	nsubj
2	refused	refuse	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 marry	mark
4	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 refused	xcomp
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 girl	det
6	lame	lame	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 girl	amod
7	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 marry	obj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 locked	cc
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 locked	aux:pass
10	locked	lock	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 refused	conj
11	up	up	ADP	_	10 locked	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	refuse	past	he		vn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	not marry	to-infinitive	he not said here	the lame girl	vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent girl=Patient
3	lock up	past · passive	he not said here		vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»

Option 3

he refused the marriage

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 refused	nsubj
2	refused	refuse	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 marriage	det
4	marriage	marriage	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 refused	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	refuse	past	he	the marriage					vn reject-77.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent marriage=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

he said no to the wedding

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 said	nsubj
2	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	2 said	obj
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 wedding	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 wedding	det
6	wedding	wedding	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 said	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	he	no	the wedding				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent no=Topic to wedding=Recipient

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