Test 7 · ★ · Fairy Book, Prince Mirliflor: the bees steal the twelve ma…

Is Mirliflor still a player after he marries?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Mirliflor · What happens: be, marry · To what, where: player

This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 1876 «Fairy Book, Prince Mirliflor: the bees steal the twelve maidens, and Rosanella returns to marry the Prince» 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	Is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 player	cop
2	Mirliflor	Mirliflor	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 player	nsubj
3	still	still	ADV	_	5 player	advmod
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 player	det
5	player	player	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	after	after	SCONJ	_	8 marries	mark
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 marries	nsubj
8	marries	marry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 player	advcl
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 player	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Mirliflor	a player			still		tree rules
2	marry	present	Mirliflor						vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient

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 · ✓ the right answer

Nah, he stayed loyal for his whole life

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 stayed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 stayed	nsubj
4	stayed	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	loyal	loyal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 stayed	xcomp
6	for	for	ADP	_	9 life	case
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 life	nmod:poss
8	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 life	amod
9	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stayed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stay	past	he					for his whole life; loyal property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Yeah, he kept his eye on girls

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 kept	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 kept	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 kept	nsubj
4	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 eye	nmod:poss
6	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 kept	obj
7	on	on	ADP	_	8 girls	case
8	girls	girl	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 kept	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	past	he	his eye				on girls	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent eye=Theme on girl=Location

Option 3

Nah, he gave up the game but still flirted with every lady at court

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 gave	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 gave	nsubj
4	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	up	up	ADP	_	4 gave	compound:prt
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 game	det
7	game	game	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 gave	obj
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	10 flirted	cc
9	still	still	ADV	_	10 flirted	advmod
10	flirted	flirt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 gave	conj
11	with	with	ADP	_	13 lady	case
12	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	13 lady	det
13	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 flirted	obl
14	at	at	ADP	_	15 court	case
15	court	court	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 lady	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give up	past	he	the game					vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent game=Source
2	flirt speech: other	participle	he not said here				still	with every lady at court	vn chit_chat-37.6 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with lady=Co-Agent

Option 4

Nah, he went right back to chasing maidens once the wedding was done

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 went	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 went	nsubj
4	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	right	right	ADV	_	6 back	advmod
6	back	back	ADV	_	4 went	advmod
7	to	to	SCONJ	_	8 chasing	mark
8	chasing	chase	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 went	advcl
9	maidens	maiden	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 chasing	obj
10	once	once	SCONJ	_	14 done	mark
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 wedding	det
12	wedding	wedding	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 done	nsubj
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 done	aux:pass
14	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 chasing	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	go	past	he		vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	chase	gerund	he not said here	maidens	vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent maiden=Theme
3	do	past · passive		the wedding	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality

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