Test 4 · ★ · Indian Fairy Tales, The Charmed Ring, part 18: the ring is…
Why'd the prince go all gutted and stop eating, like?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: prince · What happens: go, gut, stop, eat
This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 1834 «Indian Fairy Tales, The Charmed Ring, part 18: the ring is stolen and the cat sets out to win it 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 | 'd | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 go | aux |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 prince | det |
| 4 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 go | nsubj |
| 5 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | all | all | ADV | _ | 7 gutted | advmod |
| 7 | gutted | gut | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 go | advcl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 stop | cc |
| 9 | stop | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 gutted | conj |
| 10 | eating | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 stop | xcomp |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 like | punct |
| 12 | like | like | ADP | _ | 5 go | obl |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 go | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | would | the prince | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | gut | participle | the prince not said here | all property | vn pit-10.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | stop | present | the prince not said here | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | eat | gerund | the prince not said here | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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
his bride was missing
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 bride | nmod:poss |
| 2 | bride | bride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 missing | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 missing | cop |
| 4 | missing | missing | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | his bride | missing property | tree rules |
Option 2
the woman he loved was never brought to his bed chamber
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 woman | det |
| 2 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 brought | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 loved | nsubj |
| 4 | loved | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 woman | acl:relcl |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 brought | aux:pass |
| 6 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 7 brought | advmod |
| 7 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 chamber | case |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 chamber | nmod:poss |
| 10 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 chamber | compound |
| 11 | chamber | chamber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 brought | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | love | past | he | the woman not said here | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer woman=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | not bring | past · passive | the woman | his bed chamber | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to chamber=Destination |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
she was not brought to him
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 | 4 brought | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 brought | aux:pass |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 brought | advmod |
| 4 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 him | case |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 brought | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not bring | past · passive | she | him = he | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to he=Destination |
Option 4
she was not sent for
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 | 4 sent | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 sent | aux:pass |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 sent | advmod |
| 4 | sent | send | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 4 sent | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not send | past · passive | she | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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