Test 12 · ★ · Fairy Tales, Rosimond, part 32: Rosimond brings home the r…

Wait, how did the King catch Bramintho out, though?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you · What happens: wait, do out · To what, where: King catch

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 1895 «Fairy Tales, Rosimond, part 32: Rosimond brings home the real Prince and returns the ring to the Fairy» 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	_	4 did	punct
3	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	4 did	advmod
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Wait	advcl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 catch	det
6	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 catch	compound
7	catch	catch	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obj
8	Bramintho	Bramintho	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 catch	appos
9	out	out	ADP	_	4 did	compound:prt
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 though	punct
11	though	though	SCONJ	_	1 Wait	obl
12	?	?	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	do out	past	you not said here	the King catch					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent catch=Eventuality

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

he paid a stranger to spy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 paid	nsubj
2	paid	pay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 stranger	det
4	stranger	stranger	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 paid	obj
5	to	to	PART	_	6 spy	mark
6	spy	spy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 paid	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pay	past	he	a stranger					vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stranger=Asset
2	spy	to-infinitive	he not said here						vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer

Option 2

he hired a secret agent

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 hired	nsubj
2	hired	hire	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 agent	det
4	secret	secret	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 agent	amod
5	agent	agent	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 hired	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hire	past	he	a secret agent					vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent agent=Theme

Option 3

he paid a stranger to spy on him every night

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 paid	nsubj
2	paid	pay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 stranger	det
4	stranger	stranger	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 paid	obj
5	to	to	PART	_	6 spy	mark
6	spy	spy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 paid	advcl
7	on	on	ADP	_	8 him	case
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 spy	obl
9	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	10 night	det
10	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 spy	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pay	past	he	a stranger					vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stranger=Asset
2	spy	to-infinitive	he not said here				night	on him = he	vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer

Option 4

he sent a loyal spy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 sent	nsubj
2	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 spy	det
4	loyal	loyal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 spy	amod
5	spy	spy	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sent	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	send	past	he	a loyal spy					vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spy=Theme

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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