Test 8 · ★ · Fairy Tales, Prince Mannikin, part 27: a little monkey sho…

Why did the King go mental at the old woman?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: King · What happens: go

This is test 8 · ★ 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	5 go	advmod
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 go	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 King	det
4	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 go	nsubj
5	go	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	mental	mental	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 go	xcomp
7	at	at	ADP	_	10 woman	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 woman	det
9	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 woman	amod
10	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 mental	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 go	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past · do-support	the King					mental property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

She was rude to his wife and the sledging trip

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 rude	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 rude	cop
3	rude	rude	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 wife	case
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 wife	nmod:poss
6	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 rude	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 trip	cc
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 trip	det
9	sledging	sledging	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 trip	compound
10	trip	trip	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 wife	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	She					to his wife and the sledging trip; rude property	tree rules

Option 2

She was rude to his wife, mate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 rude	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 rude	cop
3	rude	rude	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 wife	case
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 wife	nmod:poss
6	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 rude	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 mate	punct
8	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 wife	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	She					to his wife and mate; rude property	tree rules

Option 3

She cursed the sledging trip and his men

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 cursed	nsubj
2	cursed	curse	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 trip	det
4	sledging	sledging	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 trip	compound
5	trip	trip	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 cursed	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 men	cc
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 men	nmod:poss
8	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 trip	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	curse	past	She	the sledging trip and his men					vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trip=Theme

Option 4

Cos she was old

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

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