Test 11 · ★ · The Violet Fairy Book, How the Dragon Was Tricked, part 2:…

Like, what did the princess do when the cats came back?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: cats · What happens: do, come back · To what, where: princess

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 1613 «The Violet Fairy Book, How the Dragon Was Tricked, part 2: a clever youth tricks a king, a shepherd and a dragon» 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	Like	like	INTJ	_	4 did	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Like	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 do	advcl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 princess	det
6	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obj
7	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	when	when	SCONJ	_	11 came	mark
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 cats	det
10	cats	cat	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 came	nsubj
11	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 do	advcl
12	back	back	ADV	_	11 came	advmod
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 do	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	do	past		the princess	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent princess=Eventuality
2	do	present			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	come back	past	the cats		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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

She sent a servant to search the whole park for them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 sent	nsubj
2	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 servant	det
4	servant	servant	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sent	obj
5	to	to	PART	_	6 search	mark
6	search	search	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 sent	advcl
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 park	det
8	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 park	amod
9	park	park	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 search	obj
10	for	for	ADP	_	11 them	case
11	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 search	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	send	past	She	a servant					vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent servant=Theme
2	search	to-infinitive	She not said here	the whole park				for them = they	vn search-35.2 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent park=Location for they=Theme

Option 2

She wept and made a promise that they would never be parted again

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 wept	nsubj
2	wept	weep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 made	cc
4	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 wept	conj
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 promise	det
6	promise	promise	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 made	obj
7	that	that	SCONJ	_	12 parted	mark
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 parted	nsubj:pass
9	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 parted	aux
10	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	12 parted	advmod
11	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	12 parted	aux:pass
12	parted	part	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 made	advcl
13	again	again	ADV	_	12 parted	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	weep	past	She			vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	make	past	She not said here	a promise		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset promise=Product
3	not part	would · passive		they	again	vn separate-23.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

Option 3

She hugged them tightly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 hugged	nsubj
2	hugged	hug	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 hugged	obj
4	tightly	tightly	ADV	_	2 hugged	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hug	past	She	them = they				tightly property	vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Co-Agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

She wept and made a promise

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 wept	nsubj
2	wept	weep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 made	cc
4	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 wept	conj
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 promise	det
6	promise	promise	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 made	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	weep	past	She						vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	make	past	She not said here	a promise					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset promise=Product

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