Test 9 · ★ · Household Tales, The Girl at the Brook, part 73: the broth…

Cheers, what did the King order the youth to do?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Cheers · What happens: do · To what, where: King order

This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 1576 «Household Tales, The Girl at the Brook, part 73: the brother fetches his sister, and they set sail with the stepmother» 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	Cheers	cheer	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 did	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 order	det
6	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 order	compound
7	order	order	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obj
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 youth	det
9	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obj
10	to	to	PART	_	11 do	mark
11	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 youth	acl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	Cheers	the King order					tree rules
2	do	to-infinitive	Cheers not said here						vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=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

ride off and fetch her back here sharpish, mate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	ride	ride	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	off	off	ADP	_	1 ride	compound:prt
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 fetch	cc
4	fetch	fetch	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 ride	conj
5	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 back	nmod:poss
6	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fetch	obj
7	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 fetch	advmod
8	sharpish	sharpish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 fetch	xcomp
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 mate	punct
10	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 ride	vocative

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ride off	imperative	you not said here					mate vocative	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
2	fetch	infinitive	you not said here	her back		here		sharpish property	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent back=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

go and fetch her right away sharpish

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 fetch	cc
3	fetch	fetch	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 go	conj
4	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 fetch	obj
5	right	right	ADV	_	6 away	advmod
6	away	away	ADV	_	3 fetch	advmod
7	sharpish	sharpish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 fetch	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	imperative	you not said here						vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	fetch	infinitive	you not said here	her = she				away, sharpish property	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme

Option 3

bring her quickly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	bring	bring	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 bring	obj
3	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	1 bring	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bring	imperative	you not said here		her = she			quickly property	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument she=Destination

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

fetch her sharpish

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	fetch	fetch	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 fetch	obj
3	sharpish	sharpish	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 fetch	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fetch	imperative	you not said here	sharpish	her = she				vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent she=Beneficiary sharpish=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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