Test 8 · ★ · Pink Fairy Book, The White Dove, part 1: two reckless prin…

What did the prince do with the dove at the end?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: prince · What happens: do · To what, where: end

This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 1653 «Pink Fairy Book, The White Dove, part 1: two reckless princes promise their unborn brother to a witch to escape a storm» 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	2 did	nsubj
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 prince	det
4	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 do	nsubj
5	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 did	parataxis
6	with	with	ADP	_	8 dove	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 dove	det
8	dove	dove	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 do	obl
9	at	at	ADP	_	11 end	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 end	det
11	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 do	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past							vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	do	present	the prince				at the end	with the dove	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

he patted its wing gently

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 patted	nsubj
2	patted	pat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 wing	nmod:poss
4	wing	wing	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 patted	obj
5	gently	gently	ADV	_	2 patted	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pat	past	he	its wing				gently property	vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wing=Experiencer

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

he hugged it and let it go

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 hugged	nsubj
2	hugged	hug	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 hugged	obj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 let	cc
5	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 hugged	conj
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 let	obj
7	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 let	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	hug	past	he	it	vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Co-Agent
2	let	infinitive	he not said here	it	tree rules
3	go	infinitive			vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

stroked it and kissed its beak

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	stroked	stroke	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 stroked	obj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 kissed	cc
4	kissed	kiss	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 stroked	conj
5	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 beak	nmod:poss
6	beak	beak	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 kissed	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stroke	past		it					vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	kiss	past		its beak					vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beak=Co-Agent

Option 4

he stroked it, kissed its beak, and carried it to the window

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 stroked	nsubj
2	stroked	stroke	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 stroked	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 kissed	punct
5	kissed	kiss	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 stroked	conj
6	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 beak	nmod:poss
7	beak	beak	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 kissed	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 carried	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 carried	cc
10	carried	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 stroked	conj
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 carried	obj
12	to	to	ADP	_	14 window	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 window	det
14	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 carried	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	stroke	past	he	it		vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	kiss	past	he not said here	its beak		vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beak=Co-Agent
3	carry	past	he not said here	beak	the window	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme to window=Destination

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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