Test 8 · ★ · Fairy Tales, The Swineherd: the Prince shows his true self…

Bro, what did the Princess have to do after the door shut?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Bro · What happens: do, have · To what, where: Princess

This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 1734 «Fairy Tales, The Swineherd: the Prince shows his true self and the Princess is sent away to sing outside» 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	Bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 have	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Bro	acl:relcl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Princess	det
6	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 did	obj
7	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	to	to	PART	_	9 do	mark
9	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 have	xcomp
10	after	after	ADP	_	12 door	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 door	det
12	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 do	obl
13	shut	shut	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 do	xcomp
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 have	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	Bro	the Princess			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent princess=Eventuality
2	have	present	Bro				tree rules
3	do	to-infinitive	Bro not said here		after the door	shut property	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

sing outside and beg for him to open

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	sing	sing	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	outside	outside	ADV	_	1 sing	advmod
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 beg	cc
4	beg	beg	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 sing	conj
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 him	case
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 beg	obl
7	to	to	PART	_	8 open	mark
8	open	open	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 beg	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	sing speech: express	imperative	you not said here	outside property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	beg speech: request	infinitive	you not said here	for him = he	vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V PP.Topic»: agent=Agent for he=Topic
3	open	to-infinitive	you not said here		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

sing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	sing	sing	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

sing outside the door all night long

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	sing	s	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	outside	outside	ADP	_	4 door	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 door	det
4	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 sing	obl
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 night	det
6	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 sing	obl:unmarked
7	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	1 sing	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	s	gerund					night	outside the door; long property	tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

sing outside

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	sing	sing	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	outside	outside	ADV	_	1 sing	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sing speech: express	imperative	you not said here					outside property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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