Test 5 · ★ · Fairy Tales (pg641), The Prince and the White-headed Calf:…

mate, why'd the maiden say to heat a shovel red hot?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: maiden · What happens: say, heat · To what, where: shovel · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 5 · ★ 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	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 say	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	7 say	advmod
4	'd	'd	PUNCT	_	7 say	punct
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 maiden	det
6	maiden	maiden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 say	nsubj
7	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 mate	acl:relcl
8	to	to	PART	_	9 heat	mark
9	heat	heat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 say	advcl
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 shovel	det
11	shovel	shovel	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 heat	obj
12	red	red	ADV	_	13 hot	advmod
13	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 shovel	amod
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 mate	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	the maiden						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	heat	to-infinitive	the maiden not said here	a shovel					vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent shovel=Patient

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

to make the master let go

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	2 make	mark
2	make	make	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 master	det
4	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 make	obj
5	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 make	xcomp
6	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 let	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	make	to-infinitive		the master	tree rules
2	let	infinitive	the master not said here		tree rules
3	go	infinitive	the master not said here		vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

so he can burn him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	so	so	ADV	_	4 burn	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 burn	nsubj
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 burn	aux
4	burn	burn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 burn	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	burn	can	he	him = he					vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent he=Theme

Option 3

so the master gets burnt badly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	so	so	ADV	_	5 burnt	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 master	det
3	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 burnt	nsubj:pass
4	gets	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 burnt	aux:pass
5	burnt	burnt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	badly	badly	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 burnt	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	burnt	present · passive		the master				badly property	tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

so he burns his hand off the master

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	so	so	ADV	_	3 burns	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 burns	nsubj
3	burns	burn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 hand	nmod:poss
5	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 burns	obj
6	off	off	ADP	_	8 master	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 master	det
8	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 burns	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	burn	present	he	his hand				off the master	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent hand=Theme

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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