Test 14 · ★ · The Green Fairy Book, The Little Green Frog, part 13: Prin…

Why did the fairies put that mirror in his room, bruv?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: fairies · What happens: put · To what, where: mirror, room

This is test 14 · ★ of lesson 1689 «The Green Fairy Book, The Little Green Frog, part 13: Prince Saphir sets out to find the magic bird that cured his father» 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 put	advmod
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 put	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 fairies	det
4	fairies	fairy	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 put	nsubj
5	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	7 mirror	det
7	mirror	mirror	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 put	obj
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 room	case
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 room	nmod:poss
10	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 put	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 bruv	punct
12	bruv	bruv	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 room	conj
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 put	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	put	past · do-support	the fairies	that mirror		his room and bruv			vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent mirror=Theme in room=Destination

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

To keep him from the wild birds

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 keep	mark
2	keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 keep	obj
4	from	from	ADP	_	7 birds	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 birds	det
6	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 birds	amod
7	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 keep	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	to-infinitive			him = he			from the wild birds	vn forbid-64.4 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer he=Beneficiary from bird=Eventuality

Option 2

To test him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 test	mark
2	test	test	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 test	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	test	to-infinitive		him = he					vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme

Option 3

To make him weep for his mother

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 make	mark
2	make	make	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 make	obj
4	weep	weep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 make	xcomp
5	for	for	ADP	_	7 mother	case
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 mother	nmod:poss
7	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 weep	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	to-infinitive		him = he					tree rules
2	weep	infinitive	him = he not said here					for his mother	vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

To stop him loving his dad too much

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 stop	mark
2	stop	stop	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 stop	obj
4	loving	love	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 stop	xcomp
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 dad	nmod:poss
6	dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 loving	obj
7	too	too	ADV	_	8 much	advmod
8	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 loving	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stop	to-infinitive		him = he					tree rules
2	love	gerund		his dad					tree rules

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