Test 12 · ★ · Fairy Tales pg641, The Lute Player and The Grateful Prince…

Ugh, why didn't the king just give up his dog?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: king · What happens: not give up · To what, where: dog

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 1762 «Fairy Tales pg641, The Lute Player and The Grateful Prince, part 13: the queen wins back her king, then a lost king makes a bargain with a stranger» 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	Ugh	ugh	INTJ	_	9 give	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Ugh	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	9 give	advmod
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 give	aux
5	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 give	advmod
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 king	det
7	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 give	nsubj
8	just	just	ADV	_	9 give	advmod
9	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
10	up	up	ADP	_	9 give	compound:prt
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 dog	nmod:poss
12	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 give	iobj
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 give	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not give up	past · do-support	the king		king's dog				vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dog=Source

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

cause the dog was the best hunter in the whole kingdom and he was really scared to lose it

The tree, 19 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cause	cause	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 dog	det
3	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 hunter	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 hunter	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 hunter	det
6	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	7 hunter	amod
7	hunter	hunter	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 cause	ccomp
8	in	in	ADP	_	11 kingdom	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 kingdom	det
10	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 kingdom	amod
11	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 hunter	nmod
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 scared	cc
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 scared	nsubj
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 scared	cop
15	really	really	ADV	_	16 scared	advmod
16	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 cause	conj
17	to	to	PART	_	18 lose	mark
18	lose	lose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 scared	xcomp
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 lose	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	cause	imperative	you not said here				vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition
2	is a	past	the dog	the best hunter	the whole kingdom		tree rules
3	is	past	dog			scared property	tree rules
4	lose	to-infinitive	dog not said here	kingdom			vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

cause the dog had been with him through every war and he promised to keep it forever, dude

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cause	cause	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 dog	det
3	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 cause	obj
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 him	aux
5	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 him	cop
6	with	with	ADP	_	7 him	case
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 dog	nmod
8	through	through	ADP	_	10 war	case
9	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	10 war	det
10	war	war	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 cause	obl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 promised	cc
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 promised	nsubj
13	promised	promise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 cause	conj
14	to	to	PART	_	15 keep	mark
15	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 promised	xcomp
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 keep	obj
17	forever	forever	ADV	_	15 keep	advmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 dude	punct
19	dude	dude	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 cause	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	cause	imperative	you not said here	the dog	every war		vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition dog=Patient
2	is	past · perfect				with dog	tree rules
3	promise speech: promise	past	dog				vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	keep not said to happen	to-infinitive	dog not said here	war		forever property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

cause the dog was his fave, dude

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cause	cause	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 dog	det
3	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 fave	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 fave	cop
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 fave	nmod:poss
6	fave	fave	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 cause	ccomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 dude	punct
8	dude	dude	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 fave	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cause	imperative	you not said here						vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition
2	is a	past	the dog	dog's fave and dude					tree rules

Option 4

cause the dog was his buddy, bro

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cause	cause	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 dog	det
3	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 buddy	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 buddy	cop
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 buddy	nmod:poss
6	buddy	buddy	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 cause	ccomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 bro	punct
8	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 buddy	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cause	imperative	you not said here						vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition
2	is a	past	the dog	dog's buddy and bro					tree rules

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