Test 3 · ★ · Slavonic Tales, The Magic Ring, part 1: Martin spends his…

Mate, why'd the Prince wanna nab the foal anyway?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Prince · What happens: nab · To what, where: Mate

This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 1717 «Slavonic Tales, The Magic Ring, part 1: Martin spends his mother's money on a dog and a cat» 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	Mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 nab	obl
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 nab	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	8 nab	advmod
4	'd	'd	PUNCT	_	6 Prince	punct
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Prince	det
6	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 nab	nsubj
7	wanna	wanna	X	Foreign=Yes	8 nab	dep
8	nab	nab	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 foal	det
10	foal	foal	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 nab	obj
11	anyway	anyway	ADV	_	8 nab	advmod
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 nab	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	nab	infinitive	the Prince	Mate				anyway property	vn prosecute-33.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent foal=Patient

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

Cos it's his pet

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cos	cos	SCONJ	_	5 pet	case
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 pet	nsubj
3	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 pet	cop
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 pet	nmod:poss
5	pet	pet	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	it					cos his pet	tree rules

Option 2

Cos the magician said it can fly over mountains

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cos	cos	SCONJ	_	3 magician	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 magician	det
3	magician	magician	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 fly	nsubj
6	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 fly	aux
7	fly	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 said	ccomp
8	over	over	ADP	_	9 mountains	case
9	mountains	mountain	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 fly	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the magician						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	fly	can	magician			mountains			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over mountain=Location

Option 3

Cos it's dead fast

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cos	cos	SCONJ	_	4 dead	mark
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 dead	nsubj
3	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 dead	cop
4	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 dead	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	it					dead, fast property	tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Cos it's super quick

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cos	cos	SCONJ	_	5 quick	mark
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 quick	nsubj
3	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 quick	cop
4	super	super	ADV	_	5 quick	advmod
5	quick	quick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	it					quick, super property	tree rules

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