Test 12 · ★ · Indian Fairy Tales, The Prince and the Vizier's Son, part…

Where were they trying to get to in the end?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: they · What happens: try, get · To what, where: end

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 1852 «Indian Fairy Tales, The Prince and the Vizier's Son, part 36: the prince falls for a fairy's reflection, and the friends escape the robbers» 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	Where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	4 trying	advmod
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 trying	aux
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 trying	nsubj
4	trying	try	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 get	mark
6	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 trying	xcomp
7	to	to	ADP	_	6 get	obl
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 end	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 end	det
10	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 get	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 trying	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	try	past · progressive	they						vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	get not said to happen	to-infinitive	they not said here				in the end		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

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

Ivory City, the place the fairy lives, which they had heard about from every passer-by

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ivory	ivory	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 City	amod
2	City	City	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 place	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 place	punct
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 place	det
5	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 lives	det
7	fairy	fairy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 lives	amod
8	lives	life	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 place	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 heard	punct
10	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 heard	nsubj:pass
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 heard	nsubj
12	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 heard	aux
13	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 lives	acl
14	about	about	ADV	_	13 heard	advmod
15	from	from	ADP	_	17 passer	case
16	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	17 passer	det
17	passer	passer	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 heard	obl
18	-	-	PUNCT	_	17 passer	punct
19	by	by	ADP	_	13 heard	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hear	past · perfect · passive		the fairy lives				from every passer; about property	vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: subject=Topic from passer=Source

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Ivory City, the place the fairy lives

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ivory	ivory	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 City	amod
2	City	City	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 place	punct
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 place	det
5	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 City	appos
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 fairy	det
7	fairy	fairy	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 lives	nsubj
8	lives	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 place	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	present	the fairy	the place not said here					vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme place=Location

Option 3

Ivory City, the place where the fairy lives, beyond the hills and the river and the desert

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ivory	ivory	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 City	amod
2	City	City	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 place	punct
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 place	det
5	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 City	appos
6	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	9 lives	advmod
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 fairy	det
8	fairy	fairy	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 lives	nsubj
9	lives	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 place	acl:relcl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 hills	punct
11	beyond	beyond	ADP	_	13 hills	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 hills	det
13	hills	hill	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 lives	obl
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 river	cc
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 river	det
16	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 hills	conj
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 desert	cc
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 desert	det
19	desert	desert	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 river	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	present	the fairy			the hills and the river and the desert			vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme beyond hill=Location

Option 4

The fairy's home, mate, far off

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 fairy	det
2	fairy	fairy	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 home	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 fairy	case
4	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 mate	punct
6	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 home	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 off	punct
8	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	9 off	advmod
9	off	off	ADV	_	4 home	conj

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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