Test 5 · ★ · Grimm, The King Who Would Have a Beautiful Wife, part 1: t…

Why did the swineherd go all "how lucky you are" on him, mate?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: swineherd, you · What happens: go, be

This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 1640 «Grimm, The King Who Would Have a Beautiful Wife, part 1: the servant finds soft hands, and the old bride is flung out» 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 go	advmod
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 go	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 swineherd	det
4	swineherd	swineherd	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 go	nsubj
5	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	all	all	ADV	_	9 lucky	advmod
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 all	punct
8	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	9 lucky	advmod
9	lucky	lucky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 go	ccomp
10	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	14 him	nsubj
11	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 him	cop
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 him	punct
13	on	on	ADP	_	14 him	case
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 lucky	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 mate	punct
16	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 him	vocative
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 go	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past · do-support	the swineherd						vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	present	you					on him = he; mate vocative	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

He wanted the princess's hand

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	2 wanted	nsubj
2	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 princess	det
4	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 hand	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 princess	case
6	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 wanted	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	He	the princess's hand					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot hand=Theme

Option 2

He adored the old king

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	2 adored	nsubj
2	adored	adore	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 king	det
4	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 king	amod
5	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 adored	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	adore	past	He	the old king					vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer king=Stimulus

Option 3

He had secretly wanted to marry her

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	4 wanted	nsubj
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 wanted	aux
3	secretly	secretly	ADV	_	4 wanted	advmod
4	wanted	want	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 marry	mark
6	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 wanted	xcomp
7	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 marry	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past · perfect	He					secretly property	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	marry not said to happen	to-infinitive	He not said here	her = she					vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

He fancied the princess

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	2 fancied	nsubj
2	fancied	fancy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 princess	det
4	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 fancied	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fancy	past	He	the princess					vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer princess=Stimulus

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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