Test 8 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Swineherd, part 1: a poor Prince is…

Why did the Prince paint his face brown?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Prince · What happens: paint · To what, where: face

This is test 8 · ★ 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	5 paint	advmod
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 paint	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Prince	det
4	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 paint	nsubj
5	paint	paint	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 face	nmod:poss
7	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 paint	obj
8	brown	brown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 paint	xcomp
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 paint	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	paint	past · do-support	the Prince	Prince's face				brown property	vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent face=Destination

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

to look poor

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	2 look	mark
2	look	look	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 look	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	to-infinitive						poor property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

to hide who he was

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	2 hide	mark
2	hide	hide	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Int	2 hide	ccomp
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 who	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 who	cop

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hide	to-infinitive							vn concealment-16-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is a	past	he						tree rules

Option 3

to scare the hag off

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	2 scare	mark
2	scare	scare	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 hag	det
4	hag	hag	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 scare	obj
5	off	off	ADP	_	2 scare	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	scare off	to-infinitive		the hag					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus hag=Experiencer

Option 4

for fun

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	for	for	ADP	_	2 fun	case
2	fun	fun	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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