Test 11 · ★ · Lang's Fairy Book, The Prince and the Doves: the prince es…

Why did the princess go quiet on the ride, bro?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: princess · What happens: go · To what, where: ride

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 1813 «Lang's Fairy Book, The Prince and the Doves: the prince escapes his father's trap, forgets his bride, and wins her back» 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 go	advmod
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 go	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 princess	det
4	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 go	nsubj
5	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	quiet	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 go	xcomp
7	on	on	ADP	_	9 ride	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 ride	det
9	ride	ride	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 go	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 bro	punct
11	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 ride	conj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 go	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past · do-support	the princess			the ride and bro		quiet property	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on ride=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

She feared the wolves would come

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	2 feared	nsubj
2	feared	fear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 wolves	det
4	wolves	wolf	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 come	nsubj
5	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 come	aux
6	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 feared	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fear	past	She						vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	come	would	the wolves						vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

She felt cold

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	2 felt	nsubj
2	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 felt	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	feel	past	She					cold property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

She thought he'd forget her

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	2 thought	nsubj
2	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 forget	nsubj
4	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 forget	aux
5	forget	forget	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 thought	ccomp
6	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 forget	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	She						vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	forget	would	he	her = she					tree rules

Option 4

She was scared

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 scared	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 scared	cop
3	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	She					scared property	tree rules

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