Test 6 · ★ · Russian Fairy Tales, The Emperor's Youngest Daughter, part…

Lol, what was the genius's mum up to with flowers?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: mum · What happens: be

This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 1806 «Russian Fairy Tales, The Emperor's Youngest Daughter, part 57: the princess beats three monsters and swaps the genius's flowers» 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	Lol	lol	INTJ	_	3 what	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Lol	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 what	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 genius	det
6	genius	genius	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 mum	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 genius	case
8	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 what	nsubj
9	up	up	ADP	_	3 what	compound:prt
10	to	to	ADP	_	3 what	case
11	with	with	ADP	_	12 flowers	case
12	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 what	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 what	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the genius's mum					with flowers	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 · ← Mova's choice

she was testing him with magic flowers and a sly plan for his fate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 testing	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 testing	aux
3	testing	test	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 testing	obj
5	with	with	ADP	_	7 flowers	case
6	magic	magic	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 flowers	compound
7	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 testing	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 plan	cc
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 plan	det
10	sly	sly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 plan	amod
11	plan	plan	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 flowers	conj
12	for	for	ADP	_	14 fate	case
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 fate	nmod:poss
14	fate	fate	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 plan	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	test	past · progressive	she	him = he				with magic flowers and a sly plan for his fate	vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
2	fate		his = he						nom fate «event transitive»: poss=agent

Option 2

bribing him with gold

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	bribing	bribe	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 bribing	obj
3	with	with	ADP	_	4 gold	case
4	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 bribing	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bribe	gerund		him = he				with gold	vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

testing him with magic flowers

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	testing	test	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 testing	obj
3	with	with	ADP	_	5 flowers	case
4	magic	magic	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 flowers	compound
5	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 testing	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	test	gerund		him = he				with magic flowers	vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme

Option 4

testing him with magic flowers to see who the girl really was

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	testing	test	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	12 was	csubj
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 testing	obj
3	with	with	ADP	_	5 flowers	case
4	magic	magic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 flowers	amod
5	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 testing	obl
6	to	to	PART	_	7 see	mark
7	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 testing	advcl
8	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 girl	nsubj
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 girl	det
10	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 see	ccomp
11	really	really	ADV	_	12 was	advmod
12	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	test	gerund		him = he	with magic flowers	vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
2	see	to-infinitive				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	girl					tree rules
4	be	past	testing			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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