Test 12 · ★ · Lang's Fairy Book, The Prince and the Doves: the prince es…

Bet the colt was well mean, what did the prince do?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, colt, prince · What happens: bet, mean, do · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 12 · ★ 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	Bet	bet	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 colt	det
3	colt	colt	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 mean	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 mean	aux
5	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 mean	advmod
6	mean	mean	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Bet	ccomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 do	punct
8	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	12 do	obj
9	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 do	aux
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 prince	det
11	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 do	nsubj
12	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 mean	ccomp
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Bet	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	bet	imperative	you not said here		vn risk-94 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	mean	past	the colt	well property	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	do	past · do-support	the prince		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=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

He sold it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 sold	nsubj
2	sold	sell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 sold	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sell	past	He	it					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 2

He left the colt alone and went off to find his bride

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 left	nsubj
2	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 colt	det
4	colt	colt	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 left	obj
5	alone	alone	ADV	_	2 left	advmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 went	cc
7	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 left	conj
8	off	off	ADP	_	7 went	compound:prt
9	to	to	PART	_	10 find	mark
10	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 went	advcl
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 bride	nmod:poss
12	bride	bride	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 find	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	leave	past	He	the colt	alone property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent colt=Theme
2	go off	past	He not said here			vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme
3	find	to-infinitive	He not said here	his bride		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bride=Topic

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Gave it a proper beating

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Gave	obj
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 beating	det
4	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 beating	amod
5	beating	beating	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Gave	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	past		it					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent it=Recipient beating=Theme

Option 4

He fed it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 fed	nsubj
2	fed	feed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 fed	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	feed	past	He	it					vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: 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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