Test 4 · ★ · Fairy Tales, Prince Mannikin, part 27: a little monkey sho…

test: Bruv, why did the lady-Fairy give him a tiny lump only?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: test · What happens: give · To what, where: tiny lump, Fairy

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 1890 «Fairy Tales, Prince Mannikin, part 27: a little monkey shows the Prince a rock of gold, and the Princess Sabella is found to have no heart» 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	test	test	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 give	nsubj
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	3 Bruv	punct
3	Bruv	Bruv	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 test	appos
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 give	punct
5	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	11 give	advmod
6	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 give	aux
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Fairy	det
8	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 Fairy	compound
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 lady	punct
10	Fairy	Fairy	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 give	nsubj
11	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 give	iobj
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 lump	det
14	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 lump	amod
15	lump	lump	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 give	obj
16	only	only	ADV	_	15 lump	advmod
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	11 give	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	past · do-support	test	a tiny lump	Fairy				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient lump=Theme

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

Cos she was mean

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cos	cos	SCONJ	_	4 mean	mark
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 mean	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 mean	cop
4	mean	mean	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	she					mean property	tree rules

Option 2

To test him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 test	mark
2	test	test	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 test	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	test	to-infinitive		him = he					vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

So he could see he was cool, not greedy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	So	so	ADV	_	4 see	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 see	nsubj
3	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 see	aux
4	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 cool	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 cool	cop
7	cool	cool	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 see	ccomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 greedy	punct
9	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 greedy	advmod
10	greedy	greedy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 see	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	could	he						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	is	past	he					cool property	tree rules

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Cos she wanted him to be rich at once

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cos	cos	SCONJ	_	3 wanted	mark
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 wanted	nsubj
3	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 wanted	obj
5	to	to	PART	_	7 rich	mark
6	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 rich	cop
7	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 wanted	xcomp
8	at	at	ADP	_	9 once	case
9	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	7 rich	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	she	him = he					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Pivot he=Theme
2	is not said to happen	to-infinitive	him = he not said here					rich property	tree rules

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