Test 6 · ★ · Fairy Tales, The Snuff-Box, part 33: a poor youth loses hi…

how'd the Queen get the snuff box, like?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Queen · What happens: get · To what, where: snuff box

This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 1896 «Fairy Tales, The Snuff-Box, part 33: a poor youth loses his magic box and goes looking for it across the sky» 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	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	5 get	advmod
2	'd	'd	PUNCT	_	5 get	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Queen	det
4	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 get	nsubj
5	get	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 like	advcl
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 box	det
7	snuff	snuff	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 box	compound
8	box	box	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 get	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 get	punct
10	like	like	ADP	_	root	root
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	10 like	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	present	the Queen	the snuff box					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer box=Stimulus

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

she tricked a maid

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 tricked	nsubj
2	tricked	trick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 maid	det
4	maid	maid	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 tricked	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	trick	past	she	a maid					vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent maid=Patient

Option 2

she bought a guard

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 bought	nsubj
2	bought	buy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 guard	det
4	guard	guard	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 bought	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	buy	past	she	a guard					vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent guard=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

she bribed a servant

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 bribed	nsubj
2	bribed	bribe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 servant	det
4	servant	servant	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 bribed	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bribe	past	she	a servant					vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent servant=Patient

Option 4

she begged him

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 begged	nsubj
2	begged	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 begged	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	beg speech: request	past	she		him = he				vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent he=Recipient

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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