Test 6 · ★ · Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Bird Grip, part 24: the youngest…

why'd the prince say yes to everything at the trial?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: prince · What happens: say · To what, where: everything, trial · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 1635 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Bird Grip, part 24: the youngest prince pays a murderous host, escapes, and meets the fox again» 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	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	5 say	advmod
2	'd	'd	PUNCT	_	5 say	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 prince	det
4	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 say	nsubj
5	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 say	obj
7	to	to	ADP	_	8 everything	case
8	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	5 say	obl
9	at	at	ADP	_	11 trial	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 trial	det
11	trial	trial	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 say	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 say	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	infinitive	the prince		everything	the trial			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent yes=Topic to everything=Recipient

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

cuz the king said so, lol

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cuz	cuz	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 king	det
3	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 cuz	ccomp
5	so	so	ADV	_	4 said	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 cuz	punct
7	lol	lol	INTJ	_	1 cuz	discourse

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cuz	imperative	you not said here						tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	the king						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

the fox told him to, lol

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 fox	det
2	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 told	nsubj
3	told	tell	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 told	iobj
5	to	to	PART	_	3 told	xcomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 told	punct
7	lol	lol	INTJ	_	3 told	discourse

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	the fox		him = he				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient

Option 3

idk lol

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	idk	idk	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	lol	lol	INTJ	_	1 idk	discourse

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	idk	imperative	you not said here						tree rules

Option 4

he was scared

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 scared	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 scared	cop
3	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	he					scared property	tree rules

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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