Test 2 · ★ · Lang's fairy book, Prince Narcissus and the Princess Poten…

Wait, why did Orion carry Potentilla in his mouth?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, Orion · What happens: wait, carry · To what, where: Potentilla, mouth

This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 1882 «Lang's fairy book, Prince Narcissus and the Princess Potentilla: Melinette saves Potentilla from poison and traps Grumedan» 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	Wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 carry	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	6 carry	advmod
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 carry	aux
5	Orion	Orion	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 carry	nsubj
6	carry	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Wait	advcl
7	Potentilla	Potentilla	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 carry	obj
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 mouth	case
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 mouth	nmod:poss
10	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 carry	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	carry	past · do-support	Orion	Potentilla		Orion's mouth			vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent potentilla=Value in mouth=Location

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

Cos he was told to be gentle, so he held her robe

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cos	cos	SCONJ	_	4 told	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 told	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 told	aux:pass
4	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 held	advcl
5	to	to	PART	_	7 gentle	mark
6	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 gentle	cop
7	gentle	gentle	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 told	xcomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 told	punct
9	so	so	ADV	_	11 held	advmod
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 held	nsubj
11	held	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 robe	nmod:poss
13	robe	robe	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 held	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past · passive		he		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient
2	is not said to happen	to-infinitive	he not said here		gentle property	tree rules
3	hold	past	he	her robe		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent robe=Theme

Option 2

Cos the Queen told him to be careful with her

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cos	cos	SCONJ	_	4 told	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Queen	det
3	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 told	nsubj
4	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 told	iobj
6	to	to	PART	_	8 careful	mark
7	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	8 careful	cop
8	careful	careful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 told	ccomp
9	with	with	ADP	_	10 her	case
10	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 careful	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	the Queen		him = he				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
2	is not said to happen	to-infinitive						with Queen; careful property	tree rules

Option 3

Cos he was told to be gentle, so he held her robe in his mouth the whole way across the lawns

The tree, 21 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cos	cos	SCONJ	_	4 told	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 told	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 told	aux:pass
4	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 held	advcl
5	to	to	PART	_	7 gentle	mark
6	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 gentle	cop
7	gentle	gentle	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 told	xcomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 told	punct
9	so	so	ADV	_	11 held	advmod
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 held	nsubj
11	held	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 robe	nmod:poss
13	robe	robe	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 held	obj
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 mouth	case
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 mouth	nmod:poss
16	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 held	obl
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 way	det
18	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 way	amod
19	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 held	obl:unmarked
20	across	across	ADP	_	22 lawns	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 lawns	det
22	lawns	lawn	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 way	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past · passive		he			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient
2	is not said to happen	to-infinitive	he not said here			gentle property	tree rules
3	hold	past	he	her robe	his mouth	the whole way across the lawns obl:unmarked	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent robe=Theme in mouth=Location

Option 4

Cos he was told to be gentle with her, which is why he did it this way and not any other

The tree, 21 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cos	cos	SCONJ	_	4 told	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 told	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 told	aux:pass
4	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	7 gentle	mark
6	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 gentle	cop
7	gentle	gentle	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 told	ccomp
8	with	with	ADP	_	9 her	case
9	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 gentle	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 why	punct
11	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 why	nsubj
12	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 why	cop
13	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 told	conj
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 did	nsubj
15	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 why	advcl
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 did	obj
17	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	18 way	det
18	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 did	obl:unmarked
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 any	cc
20	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	21 any	advmod
21	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	13 why	nsubj
22	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 any	fixed

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past · passive		he		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient
2	is not said to happen	to-infinitive			with her = she; gentle property	tree rules
3	is	present			why property	tree rules
4	do	past	he	it	this way obl:unmarked	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality

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