Test 10 · ★ · Fairy Book, The Glass Axe, part 1: a prince who touches th…

Why was the prince so scared of the Fairy, bruv?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: prince · What happens: be

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1709 «Fairy Book, The Glass Axe, part 1: a prince who touches the ground is stolen by a Fairy and set an impossible task» 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=Rel	root	root
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Why	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 prince	det
4	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Why	nsubj
5	so	so	ADV	_	6 scared	advmod
6	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 prince	amod
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 Fairy	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Fairy	det
9	Fairy	fairy	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 scared	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 bruv	punct
11	bruv	bruv	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 Fairy	conj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Why	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the prince					why property	tree rules

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 right answer

She'd punish him if he failed her

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 punish	nsubj
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 punish	aux
3	punish	punish	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 punish	obj
5	if	if	SCONJ	_	7 failed	mark
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 failed	nsubj
7	failed	fail	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 punish	advcl
8	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 failed	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	punish	would	She	him = he					vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient
2	fail a condition, not said to happen	past	he	her = she					vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Eventuality

Option 2

She had a terrible temper, mate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem 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 temper	det
4	terrible	terrible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 temper	amod
5	temper	temper	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 had	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 mate	punct
7	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 temper	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	She	a terrible temper and mate					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent temper=Patient

Option 3

She was really mean

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 mean	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 mean	aux
3	really	really	ADV	_	4 mean	advmod
4	mean	mean	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	past	She						vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent

Option 4

She was going to eat him up

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 going	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 going	aux
3	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 eat	mark
5	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 going	xcomp
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 eat	obj
7	up	up	ADP	_	5 eat	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past · progressive	She						vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	eat up	to-infinitive	She not said here	him = he					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient

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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