Test 7 · ★ · The Green Fairy Book, The Little Green Frog, part 13: Prin…

Did Saphir have a plan or did he just wing it?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Saphir · What happens: have, do · To what, where: plan

This is test 7 · ★ 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	Did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 have	aux
2	Saphir	Saphir	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 have	nsubj
3	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 plan	det
5	plan	plan	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 have	obj
6	or	or	CCONJ	_	7 did	cc
7	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 have	conj
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 did	nsubj
9	just	just	ADV	_	10 wing	advmod
10	wing	wing	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 he	conj
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 he	conj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 have	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past · do-support	Saphir	a plan					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plan=Patient
2	do	past	Saphir						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 · ✓ the right answer

He just trusted to chance

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	3 trusted	nsubj
2	just	just	ADV	_	3 trusted	advmod
3	trusted	trust	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 chance	mark
5	chance	chance	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 trusted	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	trust	past	He						vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

Option 2

He had a careful plan, though he left most of it to his trusty guards

The tree, 15 words

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 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 plan	det
4	careful	careful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 plan	amod
5	plan	plan	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 had	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 left	punct
7	though	though	SCONJ	_	9 left	mark
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 left	nsubj
9	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 had	conj
10	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	9 left	obj
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 it	case
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 most	nmod
13	to	to	ADP	_	16 guards	case
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 guards	nmod:poss
15	trusty	trusty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 guards	amod
16	guards	guard	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 left	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	He	a careful plan					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plan=Patient
2	leave	past	he	most of plan	his trusty guards				vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent most=Theme to guard=Recipient

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

He followed the bird's trail

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	follow	past	He	the bird's trail					vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trail=Theme

Option 4

He simply hoped for luck

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	3 hoped	nsubj
2	simply	simply	ADV	_	3 hoped	advmod
3	hoped	hope	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	for	for	ADP	_	5 luck	case
5	luck	luck	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hoped	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hope	past	He					for luck; simply property	vn long-32.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Pivot for luck=Theme

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