Test 2 · ★ · Danish Fairy Tales, Jesper and the Pearls, part 36: Jesper…

Bruh, why did the king lock Jesper in the barn?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: do · To what, where: king lock, barn

This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 1785 «Danish Fairy Tales, Jesper and the Pearls, part 36: Jesper helps the ants and is set to sort the grain» 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	Bruh	bruh	INTJ	_	4 did	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 did	advmod
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 lock	det
6	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 lock	compound
7	lock	lock	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obj
8	Jesper	Jesper	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 lock	appos
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 barn	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 barn	det
11	barn	barn	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

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

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 stop cheating

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 stop	mark
2	stop	stop	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	cheating	cheating	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 stop	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stop	to-infinitive		cheating					vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality cheating=Eventuality

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

So nobody could help him cheat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	So	so	ADV	_	4 help	advmod
2	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	4 help	nsubj
3	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 help	aux
4	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 help	obj
6	cheat	cheat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 help	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	help	could	nobody	him = he					vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary clause=Theme
2	cheat	infinitive	him = he not said here						vn cheat-10.6.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 3

To keep him from winning

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 keep	mark
2	keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 keep	obj
4	from	from	SCONJ	_	5 winning	mark
5	winning	win	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 keep	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	to-infinitive		him = he					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
2	win	gerund							vn succeed-74-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

So he could test him alone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	test	could	he	him = he				alone property	vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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