Test 6 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Swineherd, part 1: a poor Prince is…

Is the Emperor a total mid dad or what?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be · To what, where: Emperor

This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 1733 «Andersen's Tales, The Swineherd, part 1: a poor Prince is refused by the Princess and becomes a swineherd» 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	Is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 Emperor	cop
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Emperor	det
3	Emperor	Emperor	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 dad	det
5	total	total	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 dad	amod
6	mid	mid	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 dad	compound
7	dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 Emperor	appos
8	or	or	CCONJ	_	9 what	cc
9	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 dad	conj
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 Emperor	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		the Emperor					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

he lost a golden coin

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 lost	nsubj
2	lost	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 coin	det
4	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 coin	amod
5	coin	coin	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 lost	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	past	he	a golden coin					vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent coin=Eventuality

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

he cried over a bird

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 cried	nsubj
2	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	over	over	ADP	_	5 bird	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 bird	det
5	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 cried	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cry speech: express	past	he					over a bird	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over bird=Location

Option 3

he sneezed

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 sneezed	nsubj
2	sneezed	sneeze	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sneeze	past	he						vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

he hid from his son

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 hid	nsubj
2	hid	hide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	from	from	ADP	_	5 son	case
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 son	nmod:poss
5	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 hid	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hide	past	he					from his son	vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent from son=Beneficiary

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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