Test 5 · ★ · Fairy Tales, The Princess in the Chest, part 10: the king…

Wait, what did the princess say she'd do the day after?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, princess · What happens: wait, say, do after · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 5 · ★ 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	Wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 say	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 say	obj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 say	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 princess	det
6	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 say	nsubj
7	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Wait	parataxis
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 do	nsubj
9	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 do	aux
10	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 say	ccomp
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 day	det
12	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 do	obl:unmarked
13	after	after	ADP	_	10 do	compound:prt
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past · do-support	the princess		tree rules
3	do after	would	princess	day	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

Die, so the king had to pick a thing from the three she offered him

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Die	die	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 had	punct
3	so	so	ADV	_	6 had	advmod
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 king	det
5	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 had	nsubj
6	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 offered	advcl
7	to	to	PART	_	8 pick	mark
8	pick	pick	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 had	xcomp
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 thing	det
10	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 pick	obj
11	from	from	ADP	_	13 three	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 three	det
13	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 pick	obl
14	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 offered	nsubj
15	offered	offer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Die	advcl
16	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 offered	iobj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	die	imperative	you not said here				vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
2	have	past	the king				tree rules
3	pick	to-infinitive	the king not said here	a thing		the three	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent thing=Theme from three=Source
4	offer	past	she		king		vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent he=Theme

Option 2

Vanish, so the king had to pick

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Vanish	vanish	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 had	punct
3	so	so	ADV	_	6 had	advmod
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 king	det
5	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 had	nsubj
6	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Vanish	advcl
7	to	to	PART	_	8 pick	mark
8	pick	pick	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 had	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	roles by
1	vanish	imperative	you not said here	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	have	past	the king	tree rules
3	pick	to-infinitive	the king not said here	vn chew-39.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Marry, so the king had to pick

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Marry	marry	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 had	punct
3	so	so	ADV	_	6 had	advmod
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 king	det
5	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 had	nsubj
6	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Marry	conj
7	to	to	PART	_	8 pick	mark
8	pick	pick	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 had	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	roles by
1	marry	imperative	you not said here	vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
2	have	past	the king	tree rules
3	pick	to-infinitive	the king not said here	vn chew-39.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Die, so the king had to pick a thing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Die	die	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 had	punct
3	so	so	ADV	_	6 had	advmod
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 king	det
5	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 had	nsubj
6	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Die	conj
7	to	to	PART	_	8 pick	mark
8	pick	pick	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 had	xcomp
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 thing	det
10	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 pick	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	die	imperative	you not said here		vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
2	have	past	the king		tree rules
3	pick	to-infinitive	the king not said here	a thing	vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Patient

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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