Test 7 · ★ · Fairy Tales, The Wizard King, part 1: a King turns into an…
Why did the Prince go off on his travels?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Prince · What happens: go off, travel
This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 1701 «Fairy Tales, The Wizard King, part 1: a King turns into an eagle, steals a Princess and hides her in a magic palace» 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 go | advmod |
| 2 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 go | aux |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Prince | det |
| 4 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 go | nsubj |
| 5 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | off | off | ADP | _ | 5 go | compound:prt |
| 7 | on | on | SCONJ | _ | 9 travels | mark |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 travels | nmod:poss |
| 9 | travels | travel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 go | advcl |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 go | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go off | past · do-support | the Prince | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | travel | present | the Prince not said here | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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
to find a wife
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | to | to | PART | _ | 2 find | mark |
| 2 | find | find | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 wife | det |
| 4 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 find | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | to-infinitive | a wife | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wife=Topic |
Option 2
his father sent him to learn trades
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 father | nmod:poss |
| 2 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sent | nsubj |
| 3 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 sent | obj |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 learn | mark |
| 6 | learn | learn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 sent | advcl |
| 7 | trades | trade | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 learn | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send | past | his father | him = he | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||||
| 2 | learn | to-infinitive | his father not said here | trades | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trade=Topic |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice
the King was worried about his charms and wanted him far away from the court
The tree, 15 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 King | det |
| 2 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 worried | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 worried | cop |
| 4 | worried | worried | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | about | about | ADP | _ | 7 charms | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 charms | nmod:poss |
| 7 | charms | charm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 worried | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 wanted | cc |
| 9 | wanted | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 worried | conj |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 wanted | obj |
| 11 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 12 away | advmod |
| 12 | away | away | ADV | _ | 9 wanted | advmod |
| 13 | from | from | ADP | _ | 15 court | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 court | det |
| 15 | court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 away | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the King | about King's charms; worried property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | want | past | the King not said here | King | away property | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot he=Theme |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
the King was worried about his charms
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 King | det |
| 2 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 worried | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 worried | cop |
| 4 | worried | worried | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | about | about | ADP | _ | 7 charms | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 charms | nmod:poss |
| 7 | charms | charm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 worried | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the King | about King's charms; worried property | tree rules |
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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