Test 9 · ★ · Wonder Tales from Many Lands, The Story of Ciccu, part 61:…

Sick, what did the princess want?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, princess · What happens: sick, want

This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 1672 «Wonder Tales from Many Lands, The Story of Ciccu, part 61: the princess begs Ciccu's purse for a copy» 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	Sick	sick	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 want	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 want	obj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 want	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 princess	det
6	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 want	nsubj
7	want	want	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Sick	conj
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Sick	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sick	imperative	you not said here						tree rules
2	want	past · do-support	the princess						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot what=Theme

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

the horn, to blow it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 horn	det
2	horn	horn	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 blow	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 blow	punct
4	to	to	PART	_	5 blow	mark
5	blow	blow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 blow	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	blow	to-infinitive	the horn	it					vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent it=Patient

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

the purse, to copy it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 purse	det
2	purse	purse	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 copy	punct
4	to	to	PART	_	5 copy	mark
5	copy	copy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 purse	acl:relcl
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 copy	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	copy	to-infinitive		purse					vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 3

the coverlet, to wear it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 coverlet	det
2	coverlet	coverlet	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 wear	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 wear	punct
4	to	to	PART	_	5 wear	mark
5	wear	wear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 wear	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wear	to-infinitive	the coverlet	it					vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 4

the purse, to sell it and buy a crown

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 purse	det
2	purse	purse	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sell	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 sell	punct
4	to	to	PART	_	5 sell	mark
5	sell	sell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 sell	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 buy	cc
8	buy	buy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 sell	conj
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 crown	det
10	crown	crown	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 buy	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sell	to-infinitive	the purse	it					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	buy	infinitive	the purse not said here	a crown					vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crown=Theme

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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