Test 1 · ★ · Indian Fairy Tales, The Prince and the Vizier's Son: a cle…

So did the prince really stick snow in his eyes, like, for real?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: prince · What happens: do, stick · To what, where: snow, eyes

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 1854 «Indian Fairy Tales, The Prince and the Vizier's Son: a clever trick, a cruel princess punished, and a happy ending» 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	So	so	ADV	_	2 did	advmod
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 prince	det
4	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 stick	nsubj
5	really	really	ADV	_	6 stick	advmod
6	stick	stick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 did	ccomp
7	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 stick	obj
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 eyes	case
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 eyes	nmod:poss
10	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 stick	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 like	punct
12	like	like	INTJ	_	6 stick	discourse
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 real	punct
14	for	for	ADP	_	15 real	case
15	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 stick	conj
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past							tree rules
2	stick	present	the prince	snow		prince's eyes			vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent snow=Theme in eye=Destination

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

Yeah, to fake crying at Gulizar's wedding feast with all the court watching

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 fake	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 fake	punct
3	to	to	PART	_	4 fake	mark
4	fake	fake	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	crying	cry	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 fake	xcomp
6	at	at	ADP	_	10 feast	case
7	Gulizar	Gulizar	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 feast	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 Gulizar	case
9	wedding	wedding	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 feast	compound
10	feast	feast	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 crying	obl
11	with	with	ADP	_	14 court	case
12	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	14 court	det:predet
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 court	det
14	court	court	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 feast	nmod
15	watching	watch	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	14 court	acl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	roles by
1	fake	to-infinitive			tree rules
2	cry speech: express	gerund		Gulizar's wedding feast with all court	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at feast=Location
3	watch	gerund	all court not said here		vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent

Option 2

Yeah, to make her feel sorry

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 make	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 make	punct
3	to	to	PART	_	4 make	mark
4	make	make	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 make	obj
6	feel	feel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 make	xcomp
7	sorry	sorry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 feel	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	to-infinitive		her = she					tree rules
2	feel	infinitive	her = she not said here					sorry property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, to fake crying at Gulizar's

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 fake	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 fake	punct
3	to	to	PART	_	4 fake	mark
4	fake	fake	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	crying	cry	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 fake	xcomp
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 Gulizar	case
7	Gulizar	Gulizar	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 crying	obl
8	's	's	PART	_	7 Gulizar	case

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fake	to-infinitive							tree rules
2	cry speech: express	gerund				Gulizar			vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at gulizar=Location

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Yeah, to look sad at the palace

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 look	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 look	punct
3	to	to	PART	_	4 look	mark
4	look	look	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 look	xcomp
6	at	at	ADP	_	8 palace	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 palace	det
8	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 look	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	to-infinitive						at the palace; sad property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at palace=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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