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

Wait, why did the shepherd end up tied to the tree?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: wait, end up, tie

This is test 2 · ★ 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	Wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 did	advmod
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 end	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 shepherd	det
6	shepherd	shepherd	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obj
7	end	end	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Wait	parataxis
8	up	up	ADP	_	7 end	compound:prt
9	tied	tie	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 end	xcomp
10	to	to	ADP	_	12 tree	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 tree	det
12	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 tied	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	end up	past · do-support			tree rules
3	tie	participle		to the tree	vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle PP»: agent=Patient to tree=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

He was caught stealing the sheep

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 caught	nsubj:pass
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 caught	aux:pass
3	caught	catch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	stealing	steal	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 caught	xcomp
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 sheep	det
6	sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 stealing	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	catch	past · passive		He					tree rules
2	steal	gerund		the sheep					vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location sheep=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

He got tricked by the youth

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 tricked	nsubj:pass
2	got	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 tricked	aux:pass
3	tricked	trick	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	by	by	ADP	_	6 youth	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 youth	det
6	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 tricked	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	trick	past · passive	the youth	He					vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

He got conned by the youth's cheek

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 conned	nsubj
2	got	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 conned	aux:pass
3	conned	con	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	by	by	ADP	_	8 cheek	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 youth	det
6	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 cheek	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 youth	case
8	cheek	cheek	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 conned	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	con	past · passive	the youth's cheek	He					vn cheat-10.6.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Source

Option 4

The king ordered him tied up because of the youth's bold plan

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 king	det
2	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 ordered	nsubj
3	ordered	order	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 ordered	obj
5	tied	tie	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 ordered	xcomp
6	up	up	ADP	_	5 tied	compound:prt
7	because	because	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	13 plan	case
8	of	of	ADP	_	7 because	fixed
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 youth	det
10	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 plan	nmod:poss
11	's	's	PART	_	10 youth	case
12	bold	bold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 plan	amod
13	plan	plan	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 tied	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	other	roles by
1	order	past	the king	him = he		vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
2	tie up not said to happen	participle	the king not said here		because the youth's bold plan	vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient
3	plan		the youth			nom plan «cognition transitive»: poss=agent

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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