Test 13 · ★ · Lang's Fairy Book, The Lute Player, part 1: a king is take…

Dead, what did the empress do when the prince came?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: prince · What happens: do, come · To what, where: empress

This is test 13 · ★ 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	Dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 did	advcl
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	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 empress	det
6	empress	empress	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obj
7	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 came	aux
8	when	when	SCONJ	_	11 came	mark
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 prince	det
10	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 came	nsubj
11	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 empress	acl:relcl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past		the empress					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent empress=Eventuality
2	come	present · do-support	the prince						vn escape-51.1-1 «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

secretly stole out to meet him at the garden gate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	secretly	secretly	ADV	_	2 stole	advmod
2	stole	steal	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	out	out	ADP	_	2 stole	compound:prt
4	to	to	PART	_	5 meet	mark
5	meet	meet	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 stole	advcl
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 meet	obj
7	at	at	ADP	_	10 gate	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 gate	det
9	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 gate	compound
10	gate	gate	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 meet	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	steal out	past						secretly property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	meet	to-infinitive		him = he		the garden gate			vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-Agent

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

stole out to meet him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	stole	steal	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	out	out	ADP	_	1 stole	compound:prt
3	to	to	PART	_	4 meet	mark
4	meet	meet	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 stole	advcl
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 meet	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	steal out	past							vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	meet	to-infinitive		him = he					vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-Agent

Option 3

crept out of the palace at night to meet him secretly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	crept	creep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	out	out	ADP	_	5 palace	case
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 palace	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 palace	det
5	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 crept	obl
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 night	case
7	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 crept	obl
8	to	to	PART	_	9 meet	mark
9	meet	meet	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 crept	advcl
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 meet	obj
11	secretly	secretly	ADV	_	9 meet	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	creep out	past		the palace			night		vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location palace=Theme
2	meet	to-infinitive		him = he				secretly property	vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-Agent

Option 4

waved to the prince

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	waved	wave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	to	to	ADP	_	4 prince	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 prince	det
4	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 waved	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wave	participle			the prince				vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to prince=Recipient

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