Test 8 · ★ · Lang's Fairy Book, The Lute Player, part 1: a king is take…

Ay, what did the queen do with her long brown hair?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · What happens: do · To what, where: queen

This is test 8 · ★ 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	Ay	ay	INTJ	_	4 did	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Ay	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 queen	det
6	queen	queen	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obj
7	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 did	conj
8	with	with	ADP	_	12 hair	case
9	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 hair	nmod:poss
10	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 hair	amod
11	brown	brown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 hair	amod
12	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 do	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past		the queen					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent queen=Eventuality
2	do	present						with her long brown hair	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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

cut it all off and sold it to a merchant

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cut	cut	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 cut	obj
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	2 it	det
4	off	off	ADP	_	1 cut	compound:prt
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 sold	cc
6	sold	sell	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 cut	conj
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 sold	obj
8	to	to	ADP	_	10 merchant	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 merchant	det
10	merchant	merchant	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sold	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cut off	imperative	you not said here	it					vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector it=Eventuality
2	sell	past	you not said here	it	a merchant				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Theme to merchant=Recipient

Option 2

tied it up tight

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	tied	tie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 tied	obj
3	up	up	ADP	_	1 tied	compound:prt
4	tight	tight	ADV	_	1 tied	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tie up	past		it				tight property	vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

cut it all off

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cut	cut	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 cut	obj
3	all	all	ADV	_	4 off	advmod
4	off	off	ADV	_	1 cut	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cut	imperative	you not said here	it				off property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product

Option 4

hid it under a hat and cut it all off

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	hid	hide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 hid	obj
3	under	under	ADP	_	5 hat	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 hat	det
5	hat	hat	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 hid	obl
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 cut	cc
7	cut	cut	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 hid	conj
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 cut	obj
9	all	all	ADV	_	10 off	advmod
10	off	off	ADV	_	7 cut	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hide	past		it		a hat			vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent it=Patient under hat=Location
2	cut	past		hat				off property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product

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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