Test 12 · ★ · Lang's Fairy Book, Prince Narcissus and the Princess Poten…

bruv, what did the enchanter want as a thank you for being nice?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: bruv · What happens: do, want, be · To what, where: enchanter, thank

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 1880 «Lang's Fairy Book, Prince Narcissus and the Princess Potentilla, part 17: Grumedan dazzles Potentilla with flowers, frogs and pearls, and Narcissus answers with a nightingale» 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	bruv	bruv	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 want	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 bruv	acl:relcl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 enchanter	det
6	enchanter	enchanter	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obj
7	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	as	as	ADP	_	10 thank	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 thank	det
10	thank	thank	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 want	obj
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 thank	flat
12	for	for	ADP	_	14 nice	case
13	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 nice	cop
14	nice	nice	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 want	obl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 want	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	do	past	bruv	the enchanter		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent enchanter=Eventuality
2	want	present	bruv	a thank		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot thank=Theme
3	is	gerund			nice property	tree rules

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

to kiss her hand

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	2 kiss	mark
2	kiss	kiss	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 hand	nmod:poss
4	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 kiss	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	kiss	to-infinitive		her hand					vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Co-Agent

Option 2

to get a hug and then a kiss on both cheeks and the pearl as well

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	2 get	mark
2	get	get	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 hug	det
4	hug	hug	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 get	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 kiss	cc
6	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 kiss	advmod
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 kiss	det
8	kiss	kiss	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hug	conj
9	on	on	ADP	_	11 cheeks	case
10	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	11 cheeks	det
11	cheeks	cheek	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 get	obl
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 pearl	cc
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 pearl	det
14	pearl	pearl	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 cheeks	conj
15	as	as	ADV	ExtPos=ADV	2 get	advmod
16	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	15 as	fixed

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	to-infinitive		a hug and a kiss		both cheeks and the pearl			vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent hug=Theme on cheek=Source

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

to be her new friend

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	5 friend	mark
2	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 friend	cop
3	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 friend	nmod:poss
4	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 friend	amod
5	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	to-infinitive		her new friend					tree rules

Option 4

a golden kiss, innit

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 kiss	det
2	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 kiss	amod
3	kiss	kiss	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 innit	punct
5	innit	innit	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 kiss	conj

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

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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