Test 2 · ★ · Fairy Tales, The Princess in the Chest, part 10: the king…

Mate, how come nobody could see the princess till she was fourteen?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: nobody, princess · What happens: see, be · To what, where: Mate, fourteen

This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 1621 «Fairy Tales, The Princess in the Chest, part 10: the king breaks his word, the princess dies, and the sentinels vanish one by one» 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	Mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 see	obl
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 see	punct
3	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	4 come	advmod
4	come	come	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 see	obj
5	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	7 see	nsubj
6	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 see	aux
7	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 princess	det
9	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 see	obj
10	till	till	SCONJ	_	13 fourteen	mark
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 fourteen	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 fourteen	cop
13	fourteen	fourteen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 see	ccomp
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 see	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	could	nobody	Mate					tree rules
2	is a	past	princess	fourteen					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 · ← Mova's choice

The king just wanted to keep her

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	4 wanted	nsubj
3	just	just	ADV	_	4 wanted	advmod
4	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 keep	mark
6	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 wanted	xcomp
7	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 keep	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	the king						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	keep not said to happen	to-infinitive	the king not said here	her = she					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

The wise woman said it would bring misery

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 woman	det
2	wise	wise	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 woman	amod
3	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 bring	nsubj
6	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 bring	aux
7	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 said	ccomp
8	misery	misery	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 bring	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the wise woman						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	bring	would	it	misery					vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent misery=Theme

Option 3

The wise woman said it would bring misery, and the king had sworn to obey her word for ever

The tree, 19 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 woman	det
2	wise	wise	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 woman	amod
3	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 bring	nsubj
6	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 bring	aux
7	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 said	ccomp
8	misery	misery	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 bring	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 sworn	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 sworn	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 king	det
12	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 sworn	nsubj
13	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 sworn	aux
14	sworn	swear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 said	conj
15	to	to	PART	_	16 obey	mark
16	obey	obey	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 sworn	xcomp
17	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 word	nmod:poss
18	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 obey	obj
19	for	for	ADP	_	20 ever	case
20	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	16 obey	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the wise woman		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	bring	would	it	misery	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent misery=Theme
3	swear	past · perfect	the king		vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
4	obey	to-infinitive	the king not said here	woman's word	vn abide_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Theme
5	word		woman		nom word «communication transitive»: poss=agent

Option 4

The wise woman said it would bring misery to the whole household if anyone saw her

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 woman	det
2	wise	wise	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 woman	amod
3	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 bring	nsubj
6	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 bring	aux
7	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 said	ccomp
8	misery	misery	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 bring	obj
9	to	to	ADP	_	12 household	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 household	det
11	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 household	amod
12	household	household	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 bring	obl
13	if	if	SCONJ	_	15 saw	mark
14	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	15 saw	nsubj
15	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 bring	advcl
16	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 saw	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the wise woman			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	bring	would	it	misery	the whole household	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent misery=Theme to household=Destination
3	see a condition, not said to happen	past	anyone	woman		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus

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