Test 11 · ★ · Fairy Tales, Prince Narcissus and the Princess Potentilla,…
what did Narcissus beg Melinette to do?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Narcissus · What happens: beg, do · To what, where: Melinette
This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 1879 «Fairy Tales, Prince Narcissus and the Princess Potentilla, part 1: Narcissus finds the hidden princess and falls in love» 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 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 beg | obj |
| 2 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 beg | aux |
| 3 | Narcissus | Narcissus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 beg | nsubj |
| 4 | beg | beg | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | Melinette | Melinette | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 beg | obj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 do | mark |
| 7 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 beg | xcomp |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 beg | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | beg speech: request | past · do-support | Narcissus | Melinette | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | do not said to happen | to-infinitive | Narcissus not said here | vn act-114-1 «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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
send the Princess dreams of him, please
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send | send | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Princess | det |
| 3 | Princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 dreams | nsubj |
| 4 | dreams | dream | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 send | ccomp |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 him | case |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 dreams | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 send | punct |
| 8 | please | please | INTJ | _ | 1 send | discourse |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send | imperative | you not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | dream | present | the Princess | of him = he | vn cognize-85 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent |
Option 2
take him to the court, please
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | take | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 take | obj |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 court | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 court | det |
| 5 | court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 take | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 take | punct |
| 7 | please | please | INTJ | _ | 1 take | discourse |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | imperative | you not said here | him = he | the court | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to court=Destination |
Option 3
carry her a message, please
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | carry | carry | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 carry | obj |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 message | det |
| 4 | message | message | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 carry | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 carry | punct |
| 6 | please | please | INTJ | _ | 1 carry | discourse |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | carry | imperative | you not said here | her = she | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Theme she=Beneficiary message=Value |
Option 4
bring him food, please
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring | bring | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 bring | obj |
| 3 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 bring | obj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 bring | punct |
| 5 | please | please | INTJ | _ | 1 bring | discourse |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring | imperative | you not said here | food | him = he | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent he=Destination food=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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