Test 11 · ★ · Red Fairy Book, The Two Brothers, part 37: a bird, a boar,…

ngl, why was the princess chained up?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: ngl · What happens: be, chain up · To what, where: princess

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 1648 «Red Fairy Book, The Two Brothers, part 37: a bird, a boar, and a seven-headed serpent» 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	ngl	ngl	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 princess	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 ngl	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	1 ngl	advmod
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 princess	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 princess	det
6	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	chained	chain	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 princess	acl
8	up	up	ADP	_	7 chained	compound:prt
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 princess	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	ngl	the princess					tree rules
2	chain up	participle		the princess not said here					vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=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

as a gift

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	as	as	ADP	_	3 gift	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 gift	det
3	gift	gift	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2

for ransom

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	for	for	ADP	_	2 ransom	case
2	ransom	ransom	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

to be serpent food

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	4 food	mark
2	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 food	cop
3	serpent	serpent	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 food	compound
4	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	to-infinitive		serpent food					tree rules

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

to marry the serpent

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	2 marry	mark
2	marry	marry	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 serpent	det
4	serpent	serpent	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 marry	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	marry	to-infinitive		the serpent					vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent serpent=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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