Test 10 · ★ · Madame d'Aulnoy's Fairy Tales, Prince Mannikin, part 28: M…

Mannikin's bang on, so what should the Princess do?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Princess, Mannikin · What happens: do, bang · To what, where: bang

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1891 «Madame d'Aulnoy's Fairy Tales, Prince Mannikin, part 28: Mannikin wins the joust and the Ambassador's insolent letter arrives» 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	Mannikin	Mannikin	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 bang	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Mannikin	case
3	bang	bang	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	on	on	ADP	_	3 bang	compound:prt
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 do	punct
6	so	so	ADV	_	11 do	advmod
7	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	11 do	obj
8	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 do	aux
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Princess	det
10	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 do	nsubj
11	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 bang	appos
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 bang	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	should	the Princess	Mannikin's bang					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality
2	bang		Mannikin						nom bang «event transitive»: poss=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

tell them nothing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 tell	iobj
3	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	1 tell	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	imperative	you not said here	nothing	them = they				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient nothing=Topic

Option 2

stall them with a promise until the grand entry

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	stall	stall	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 stall	obj
3	with	with	ADP	_	5 promise	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 promise	det
5	promise	promise	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 stall	obl
6	until	until	ADP	_	9 entry	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 entry	det
8	grand	grand	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 entry	amod
9	entry	entry	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 stall	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stall	imperative	you not said here	them = they			until the grand entry	with a promise	vn delay-53.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Eventuality

Option 3

attack them at dawn

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	attack	attack	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 attack	obj
3	at	at	ADP	_	4 dawn	case
4	dawn	dawn	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 attack	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	attack	imperative	you not said here	them = they			dawn		vn attack-60.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

stall them with a promise

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	stall	stall	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 stall	obj
3	with	with	ADP	_	5 promise	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 promise	det
5	promise	promise	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 stall	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stall	imperative	you not said here	them = they				with a promise	vn delay-53.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Eventuality

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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