Test 13 · ★ · Lang's Fairy Book, Prince Narcissus and the Princess Poten…

peak, the Prince was fuming when Melinette told him about Grumedan, what did he want to do?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Prince, Melinette, Grumedan · What happens: fume, tell, want, do · To what, where: peak, Prince, Grumedan · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 13 · ★ 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	peak	peak	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 fuming	obl:unmarked
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 peak	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Prince	det
4	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 fuming	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 fuming	aux
6	fuming	fume	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	9 told	advmod
8	Melinette	Melinette	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 told	nsubj
9	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 fuming	advcl
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 told	iobj
11	about	about	ADP	_	12 Grumedan	case
12	Grumedan	Grumedan	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 told	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 want	punct
14	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	17 want	obj
15	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 want	aux
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 want	nsubj
17	want	want	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 Grumedan	conj
18	to	to	PART	_	19 do	mark
19	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 want	xcomp
20	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 fuming	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	fume	past · progressive	the Prince	peak			vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	tell speech: assert	past	Melinette		Prince	about Grumedan	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent he=Recipient about grumedan=Topic
3	want	past · do-support	Melinette	Grumedan			tree rules
4	do not said to happen	to-infinitive	Grumedan 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

do some daft things

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	4 things	det
3	daft	daft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 things	amod
4	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 do	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	present		some daft things					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Eventuality

Option 2

fight, bruv

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	fight	fight	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 bruv	punct
3	bruv	bruv	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 fight	conj

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

Option 3

get revenge

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	get	get	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	revenge	revenge	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 get	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	imperative	you not said here	revenge					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer revenge=Stimulus

Option 4

challenge him to a duel

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	challenge	challenge	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 challenge	obj
3	to	to	ADP	_	5 duel	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 duel	det
5	duel	duel	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 challenge	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	challenge	imperative	you not said here	him = he				to a duel	tree rules

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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