Test 6 · ★ · fairy tales, The Prince in the Old Man's House, part 15: t…

bro, what was the maid whispering about?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: bro, maid · What happens: be, whisper · To what, where: maid

This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 1764 «fairy tales, The Prince in the Old Man's House, part 15: the prince is set a hay task and tricks a horse and a cow» 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	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 maid	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 maid	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 maid	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 maid	det
6	maid	maid	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 bro	appos
7	whispering	whisper	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 maid	acl
8	about	about	ADV	_	7 whispering	advmod
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 bro	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	bro	the maid					tree rules
2	whisper speech: assert	gerund	the maid not said here					about property	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «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

How to get past the old man

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	3 get	advmod
2	to	to	PART	_	3 get	mark
3	get	get	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	past	past	ADP	_	7 man	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 man	det
6	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 man	amod
7	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 get	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	to-infinitive						past the old man	vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme past man=Destination

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

How to get through the tasks

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	3 get	advmod
2	to	to	PART	_	3 get	mark
3	get	get	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	through	through	ADP	_	6 tasks	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 tasks	det
6	tasks	task	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 get	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	to-infinitive				the tasks			vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme through task=Destination

Option 3

How to survive the tasks and keep the old man from beating him in the morning

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	3 survive	advmod
2	to	to	PART	_	3 survive	mark
3	survive	survive	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 tasks	det
5	tasks	task	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 survive	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 keep	cc
7	keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 survive	conj
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 man	det
9	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 man	amod
10	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 keep	obj
11	from	from	SCONJ	_	12 beating	mark
12	beating	beat	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 keep	advcl
13	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 beating	obj
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 morning	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 morning	det
16	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 beating	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	when	roles by
1	survive	to-infinitive	the tasks		vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme task=Circumstance
2	keep	infinitive	the old man		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Theme
3	beat	gerund	man	morning	vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location he=Theme

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

How to get through the tasks without telling the old man that the prince is a prince

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	3 get	advmod
2	to	to	PART	_	3 get	mark
3	get	get	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	through	through	ADP	_	6 tasks	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 tasks	det
6	tasks	task	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 get	obl
7	without	without	SCONJ	_	8 telling	mark
8	telling	tell	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 prince	advcl
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 man	det
10	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 man	amod
11	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 telling	obj
12	that	that	SCONJ	_	14 prince	mark
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 prince	det
14	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 man	nmod
15	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 prince	cop
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 prince	det
17	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 get	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	get	to-infinitive			the tasks	vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme through task=Destination
2	tell speech: assert	gerund		the old man the prince		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent man=Recipient
3	is a	present	a prince			tree rules

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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