Test 9 · ★ · Fairy Tales (pg641), The Prince and the White-headed Calf:…

so the maiden was a king's daughter the whole time?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: maiden · What happens: be · To what, where: daughter

This is test 9 · ★ 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	so	so	ADV	_	8 daughter	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 maiden	det
3	maiden	maiden	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 daughter	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 daughter	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 king	det
6	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 daughter	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 king	case
8	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 time	det
10	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 time	amod
11	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 daughter	obl:unmarked
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 daughter	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	the maiden	a king's daughter			time		tree rules

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

no, she was a servant

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	no	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	6 servant	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 no	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 servant	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 servant	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 servant	det
6	servant	servant	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	she	a servant					tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

yeah, the old man took her by trickery

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 took	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 took	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 man	det
4	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 man	amod
5	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 took	nsubj
6	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 took	obj
8	by	by	ADP	_	9 trickery	case
9	trickery	trickery	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 took	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	past	the old man		her = she			by trickery	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument she=Destination

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

yes, he tricked her into staying

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 tricked	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 tricked	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 tricked	nsubj
4	tricked	trick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 tricked	obj
6	into	into	SCONJ	_	7 staying	mark
7	staying	stay	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 tricked	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	trick	past	he	her = she					vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient
2	stay	gerund	he not said here						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

yeah, he tricked her into the house

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 tricked	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 tricked	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 tricked	nsubj
4	tricked	trick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 tricked	obj
6	into	into	ADP	_	8 house	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 house	det
8	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tricked	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	trick	past	he	her = she				into the house result	vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent she=Patient into house=Result

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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