Test 1 · ★ · Fairy Tales (pg641), The Prince and the White-headed Calf:…

yo, did the prince really get the horse to drag a whole haystack just by saying wolf?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: horse · What happens: do, get, drag, say · To what, where: prince, horse, whole haystack, wolf · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 1765 «Fairy Tales (pg641), The Prince and the White-headed Calf: the prince tricks the old master and he and the maiden escape» 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	yo	yo	INTJ	_	3 did	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yo	punct
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 prince	det
5	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	obj
6	really	really	ADV	_	7 get	advmod
7	get	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 did	advcl
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 horse	det
9	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 get	obj
10	to	to	PART	_	11 drag	mark
11	drag	drag	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 get	xcomp
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 haystack	det
13	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 haystack	amod
14	haystack	haystack	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 drag	obj
15	just	just	ADV	_	17 saying	advmod
16	by	by	SCONJ	_	17 saying	mark
17	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 drag	advcl
18	wolf	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 saying	obj
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	do	past		the prince	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prince=Eventuality
2	get	present		the horse	tree rules
3	drag	to-infinitive	the horse not said here	a whole haystack	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent haystack=Theme
4	say speech: assert	gerund	the horse not said here	wolf	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent wolf=Topic

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 · ✓ the right answer

yep, the word wolf did it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yep	yep	INTJ	_	6 did	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yep	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 wolf	det
4	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 wolf	compound
5	wolf	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 did	nsubj
6	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 did	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	the word wolf	it					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality

Option 2

yes, the horse was tired

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 tired	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yes	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 horse	det
4	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 tired	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 tired	cop
6	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the horse					tired property	tree rules

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

yep, the horse dragged the whole stack back to the barn

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yep	yep	INTJ	_	5 dragged	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yep	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 horse	det
4	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 dragged	nsubj
5	dragged	drag	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 stack	det
7	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 stack	amod
8	stack	stack	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 dragged	obj
9	back	back	ADV	_	5 dragged	advmod
10	to	to	ADP	_	12 barn	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 barn	det
12	barn	barn	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 dragged	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drag	past	the horse	the whole stack		the barn			vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent stack=Theme to barn=Destination

Option 4

nope, he had to shout the word wolf three times over

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nope	nope	INTJ	_	4 had	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nope	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 had	nsubj
4	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 shout	mark
6	shout	shout	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 had	xcomp
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 wolf	det
8	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 wolf	compound
9	wolf	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 shout	obj
10	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 times	nummod
11	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 shout	obl:unmarked
12	over	over	ADV	_	6 shout	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	he						tree rules
2	shout speech: express	to-infinitive	he not said here	the word wolf			time	over property	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wolf=Topic

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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