Test 11 · ★ · Fairy Book, The Nine Pea-Hens and the Golden Apples, part…

Sis, what did the prince do after the empress left?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Sis · What happens: do, leave · To what, where: prince, empress

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 1759 «Fairy Book, The Nine Pea-Hens and the Golden Apples, part 10: the prince finds a voice begging for water in the twelfth cellar» 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	Sis	sis	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 do	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 Sis	acl:relcl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 prince	det
6	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obj
7	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	after	after	ADP	_	10 empress	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 empress	det
10	empress	empress	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 do	obl
11	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 empress	acl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 do	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	do	past	Sis	the prince		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prince=Eventuality
2	do	present	Sis		after the empress	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	leave	participle		the empress not said here		vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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 · ✓ the right answer

He unlocked the cellars one after another

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 unlocked	nsubj
2	unlocked	unlock	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 cellars	det
4	cellars	cellar	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 unlocked	obj
5	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 unlocked	obj
6	after	after	ADP	_	7 another	case
7	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	2 unlocked	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	unlock	past	He	the cellars			after another		tree rules

Option 2

He searched for the maiden at once

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 searched	nsubj
2	searched	search	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	for	for	ADP	_	5 maiden	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 maiden	det
5	maiden	maiden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 searched	obl
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 once	case
7	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	2 searched	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	search	past	He					for the maiden	vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.theme NP.location»: agent=Agent for maiden=Theme at once=Location

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

He unlocked the cellars one after another until he reached the twelfth

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 unlocked	nsubj
2	unlocked	unlock	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 cellars	det
4	cellars	cellar	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 unlocked	obj
5	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 cellars	flat
6	after	after	ADP	_	7 another	case
7	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	5 one	nmod
8	until	until	SCONJ	_	10 reached	mark
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 reached	nsubj
10	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 unlocked	advcl
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 twelfth	det
12	twelfth	twelfth	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 reached	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	unlock	past	He	the cellars					vn disassemble-23.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cellar=Patient
2	reach	past	he	the twelfth					vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent twelfth=Theme

Option 4

He opened the gate to the town

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 opened	nsubj
2	opened	open	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 gate	det
4	gate	gate	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 opened	obj
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 town	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 town	det
7	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 opened	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	open	past	He	the gate	the town				vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent gate=Patient to town=Recipient

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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