Test 14 · ★ · Fairy Tales (pg641), Dotterine, part 19: the feast, the sw…

Why did the godmother stash her with the king's mum, like, dodging a wizard?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: godmother · What happens: stash, dodge · To what, where: her, wizard

This is test 14 · ★ of lesson 1768 «Fairy Tales (pg641), Dotterine, part 19: the feast, the swallow and the secret princess; a new tale begins» 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	5 stash	advmod
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 stash	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 godmother	det
4	godmother	godmother	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 stash	nsubj
5	stash	stash	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 stash	obj
7	with	with	ADP	_	11 mum	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 king	det
9	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 mum	nmod:poss
10	's	's	PART	_	9 king	case
11	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 stash	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 dodging	punct
13	like	like	INTJ	_	15 dodging	discourse
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 dodging	punct
15	dodging	dodge	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 stash	advcl
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 wizard	det
17	wizard	wizard	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 dodging	obj
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 stash	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stash	past · do-support	the godmother	her = she				with the king's mum	vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme
2	dodge	gerund	the godmother not said here	a wizard					vn avoid-52 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent wizard=Location

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

To save her from a wizard

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 save	mark
2	save	save	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 save	obj
4	from	from	ADP	_	6 wizard	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 wizard	det
6	wizard	wizard	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 save	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	save	to-infinitive		her = she				from a wizard	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent she=Theme from wizard=Source

Option 2

To protect her from the war

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 protect	mark
2	protect	protect	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 protect	obj
4	from	from	ADP	_	6 war	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 war	det
6	war	war	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 protect	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	protect	to-infinitive			her = she			from the war	vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent she=Beneficiary from war=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

To hide her

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 hide	mark
2	hide	hide	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 hide	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hide	to-infinitive		her = she					vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient

Option 4

Because the king ordered it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Because	because	SCONJ	_	4 ordered	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 king	det
3	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 ordered	nsubj
4	ordered	order	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 ordered	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	order	past	the king	it					vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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