Test 6 · ★ · Popular Tales from the Norse, Hermod and Hadvor, part 69:…

wait, the Giant's dead but then he's a prince??

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, he · What happens: wait, be · To what, where: prince

This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 1745 «Popular Tales from the Norse, Hermod and Hadvor, part 69: the Queen's spells, the Giant's trick and Olof's warning» 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	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 dead	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Giant	det
4	Giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 dead	amod
5	's	's	PART	_	4 Giant	case
6	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 wait	advcl
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	12 prince	cc
8	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	12 prince	advmod
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 prince	nsubj
10	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 prince	cop
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 prince	det
12	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 dead	conj
13	??	??	PUNCT	_	1 wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is a	present	he	a prince			then		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

Yeah, the King did a spell

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 did	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 King	det
4	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 did	nsubj
5	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 spell	det
7	spell	spell	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 did	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	the King	a spell					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spell=Eventuality

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Yeah, the Queen cast a spell on him so he came back as a prince

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 cast	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 cast	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Queen	det
4	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 cast	nsubj
5	cast	cast	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 came	advcl
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 spell	det
7	spell	spell	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 cast	obj
8	on	on	ADP	_	9 him	case
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 cast	obl
10	so	so	ADV	_	12 came	advmod
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 came	nsubj
12	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	back	back	ADV	_	12 came	advmod
14	as	as	ADP	_	16 prince	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 prince	det
16	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 came	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cast	past	the Queen	a spell				on him = he	vn throw-17.1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent spell=Theme on he=Destination
2	come back	past	he					as a prince	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, the Queen did a spell

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 did	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Queen	det
4	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 did	nsubj
5	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 spell	det
7	spell	spell	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 did	obj

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

Option 4

Yeah, the Giant did a spell

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 did	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 did	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Giant	det
4	Giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 did	nsubj
5	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 spell	det
7	spell	spell	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 did	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	the Giant	a spell					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spell=Eventuality

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