Test 9 · ★ · Yellow Fairy Book, The Black Fairy, part 34: a bridge of c…

what did the girl tell the Prince to do with his new bow?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: girl · What happens: tell, do · To what, where: Prince · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 1710 «Yellow Fairy Book, The Black Fairy, part 34: a bridge of clouds, a duck, a vanishing church and a boar» 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	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 tell	obj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 tell	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 girl	det
4	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 tell	nsubj
5	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Prince	det
7	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 tell	obj
8	to	to	PART	_	9 do	mark
9	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 tell	ccomp
10	with	with	ADP	_	13 bow	case
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 bow	nmod:poss
12	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 bow	amod
13	bow	bow	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 do	obl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 tell	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past · do-support	the girl		the Prince				tree rules
2	do not said to happen	to-infinitive						with his new bow	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 · ← Mova's choice

shoot every beast, don't spare any, and bring the hides back

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	shoot	shoot	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 spare	nsubj
2	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	3 beast	det
3	beast	beast	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 shoot	appos
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 shoot	punct
5	do	do	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 spare	aux
6	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 spare	advmod
7	spare	spare	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	7 spare	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 bring	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 bring	cc
11	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 spare	conj
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 hides	det
13	hides	hide	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 bring	obj
14	back	back	ADV	_	11 bring	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not spare	infinitive · do-support	shoot	any					vn bill-54.5 «NP V NP NP.asset»: agent=Agent any=Asset
2	bring back	infinitive	shoot not said here	the hides					vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent hide=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

shoot every beast, don't spare any

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	shoot	shoot	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 spare	nsubj
2	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	3 beast	det
3	beast	beast	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 shoot	appos
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 shoot	punct
5	do	do	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 spare	aux
6	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 spare	advmod
7	spare	spare	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	7 spare	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not spare	infinitive · do-support	shoot	any					vn bill-54.5 «NP V NP NP.asset»: agent=Agent any=Asset

Option 3

shoot every beast, don't spare any, not even the young

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	shoot	shoot	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 spare	nsubj
2	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	3 beast	det
3	beast	beast	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 shoot	appos
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 shoot	punct
5	do	do	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 spare	aux
6	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 spare	advmod
7	spare	spare	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	7 spare	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 young	punct
10	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 young	advmod
11	even	even	ADV	_	13 young	advmod
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 young	det
13	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 spare	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not spare	infinitive · do-support	shoot	any					vn bill-54.5 «NP V NP NP.asset»: agent=Agent any=Asset

Option 4

shoot every deer, spare none

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	shoot	shoot	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	3 deer	det
3	deer	deer	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 shoot	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 spare	punct
5	spare	spare	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 shoot	conj
6	none	none	PRON	PronType=Neg	5 spare	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shoot	imperative	you not said here	every deer					vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent deer=Theme
2	spare	infinitive	you not said here	none					vn bill-54.5 «NP V NP NP.asset»: agent=Agent none=Asset

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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