Test 4 · ★ · Fairy Tales pg641, The Lute Player and The Grateful Prince…

Why was the king so mad at her when he got home?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: king · What happens: be, get · To what, where: king

This is test 4 · ★ 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 king	advmod
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 king	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 king	det
4	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 mad	nsubj
5	so	so	ADV	_	6 mad	advmod
6	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 her	case
8	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 mad	obl
9	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	11 got	advmod
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 got	nsubj
11	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 mad	advcl
12	home	home	ADV	_	11 got	advmod
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 mad	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the king					tree rules
2	get	past	king					home property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

cause she didn't help him stuck in jail

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cause	cause	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 help	nsubj
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 help	aux
4	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 help	advmod
5	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 cause	ccomp
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 help	obj
7	stuck	stuck	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 help	xcomp
8	in	in	ADP	_	9 jail	case
9	jail	jail	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 stuck	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cause	imperative	you not said here						tree rules
2	not help	past · do-support	she		him = he			stuck property	vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary

Option 2

cause she sang a song and then ran off to the forest without him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cause	cause	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 sang	nsubj
3	sang	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 cause	ccomp
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 song	det
5	song	song	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sang	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 ran	cc
7	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 ran	advmod
8	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 cause	conj
9	off	off	ADP	_	8 ran	compound:prt
10	to	to	ADP	_	12 forest	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 forest	det
12	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 ran	obl
13	without	without	ADP	_	14 him	case
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 ran	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	cause	imperative	you not said here				tree rules
2	sing speech: express	past	she	a song			vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location song=Theme
3	run off	past	you not said here		then	to the forest result; without him = he	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to forest=Result

Option 3

cause she sat around doing nothing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cause	cause	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 sat	reparandum
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 sat	nsubj
3	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	around	around	ADP	_	5 doing	mark
5	doing	do	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 sat	advcl
6	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	5 doing	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	cause	present			vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition
2	sit around	past	she		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	do	gerund	she not said here	nothing	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Eventuality

Option 4

cause she wouldn't even tell him her secret plan while he was locked up for years

The tree, 17 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	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 tell	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 tell	aux
4	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 tell	advmod
5	even	even	ADV	_	6 tell	advmod
6	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 cause	parataxis
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 tell	iobj
8	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 plan	nmod:poss
9	secret	secret	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 plan	amod
10	plan	plan	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 tell	obj
11	while	while	SCONJ	_	14 locked	mark
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 locked	nsubj:pass
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 locked	aux:pass
14	locked	lock	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 tell	advcl
15	up	up	ADP	_	14 locked	compound:prt
16	for	for	ADP	_	17 years	case
17	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 locked	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	roles by
1	cause	imperative	you not said here				vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition
2	not tell speech: assert	would	she	her secret plan	him = he		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient plan=Topic
3	lock up	past · passive		he		year	vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
4	plan		her = she				nom plan «cognition transitive»: poss=agent

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