Test 11 · ★ · Lang's Fairy Book, The Lute Player, part 1: a king is take…

Proper, what happens to the king at the mountain pass?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: mountain · What happens: happen, pass

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 1761 «Lang's Fairy Book, The Lute Player, part 1: a king is taken prisoner and his queen sets out disguised as a boy» 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	Proper	properly	ADV	_	4 happens	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Proper	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 happens	nsubj
4	happens	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 king	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 king	det
7	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 happens	obl
8	at	at	SCONJ	_	11 pass	mark
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 pass	det
10	mountain	mountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 pass	nsubj
11	pass	pass	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 happens	advcl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 happens	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	present						to the king; properly property	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	pass	infinitive	mountain						vn occur-48.3-1 «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

he is captured there

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	3 captured	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 captured	aux:pass
3	captured	capture	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 captured	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	capture	present · passive		he		there			vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

Option 2

he is wounded badly

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	3 wounded	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 wounded	aux:pass
3	wounded	wound	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	badly	badly	ADV	Degree=Pos	3 wounded	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wound	present · passive		he				badly property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

he falls into a trap and is taken to the dungeon

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 falls	nsubj
2	falls	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	into	into	ADP	_	5 trap	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 trap	det
5	trap	trap	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 falls	obl
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 taken	cc
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 taken	aux:pass
8	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 falls	conj
9	to	to	ADP	_	11 dungeon	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 dungeon	det
11	dungeon	dungeon	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 taken	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall	present	he					into a trap result	vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into trap=Result
2	take	present · passive	he not said here					to the dungeon result	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: to dungeon=Result

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

he gets taken prisoner

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	3 taken	nsubj
2	gets	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 taken	aux:pass
3	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	prisoner	prisoner	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 taken	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	present · passive		he					vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Destination

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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