Test 3 · ★ · Fairy Tales, The Tinder-Box, part 62: the Soldier sees the…

lol why'd the Queen do the bag thing?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Queen · What happens: do · To what, where: bag thing

This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 1738 «Fairy Tales, The Tinder-Box, part 62: the Soldier sees the Princess, is jailed, and is sentenced to hang» 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	lol	lol	INTJ	_	6 do	discourse
2	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	6 do	advmod
3	'd	'd	PUNCT	_	5 Queen	punct
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Queen	det
5	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 do	nsubj
6	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 thing	det
8	bag	bag	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 thing	compound
9	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 do	obj
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 do	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	present	the Queen	the bag thing					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Eventuality

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

to mark the Princess's room

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	2 mark	mark
2	mark	mark	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Princess	det
4	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 room	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 Princess	case
6	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 mark	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mark	to-infinitive		the Princess's room					vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent room=Destination

Option 2

to follow the Princess's path by the buckwheat grains dropped along the street

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	2 follow	mark
2	follow	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 dropped	advcl
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Princess	det
4	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 path	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 Princess	case
6	path	path	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 follow	obj
7	by	by	ADP	_	10 grains	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 grains	det
9	buckwheat	buckwheat	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 grains	compound
10	grains	grain	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 dropped	obl
11	dropped	drop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	along	along	ADP	_	14 street	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 street	det
14	street	street	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 dropped	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	follow	to-infinitive		the Princess's path					vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent path=Theme
2	drop	past				the street		by the buckwheat grains	vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent by grain=Destination along street=Initial_Location

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

to trace the Princess's path with grains

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	2 trace	mark
2	trace	trace	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Princess	det
4	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 path	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 Princess	case
6	path	path	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 trace	obj
7	with	with	ADP	_	8 grains	case
8	grains	grain	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 trace	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	trace	to-infinitive		the Princess's path				with grains	vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent path=Theme

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

to test whether the lady-in-waiting could be trusted with the grains

The tree, 13 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	2 test	mark
2	test	test	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	whether	whether	SCONJ	_	12 trusted	mark
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 lady	det
5	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 trusted	nsubj:pass
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 waiting	punct
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 waiting	case
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 in	punct
9	waiting	waiting	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 lady	conj
10	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 trusted	aux
11	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	12 trusted	aux:pass
12	trusted	trust	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 test	advcl
13	with	with	ADP	_	15 grains	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 grains	det
15	grains	grain	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 trusted	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	test	to-infinitive							vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	trust	could · passive		the lady and waiting				with the grains	vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: subject=Recipient with grain=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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