Test 6 · ★ · fairy tales (pg7277), The Little Soldier, part 37: John bu…
so what did the princess actually want from him
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: princess · What happens: do, want · To what, where: princess
This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 1900 «fairy tales (pg7277), The Little Soldier, part 37: John buys a golden coach, plays cards with the King, and loses his purse and cloak to Ludovine» 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 | so | so | ADV | _ | 3 did | advmod |
| 2 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 did | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 princess | det |
| 5 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 did | obj |
| 6 | actually | actually | ADV | _ | 7 want | advmod |
| 7 | want | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 princess | acl:relcl |
| 8 | from | from | ADP | _ | 9 him | case |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 want | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | the princess | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent princess=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | want | present | the princess not said here | from him = he; actually property | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot |
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 · ✓ the right answer
Her purse and cloak back, then she bailed
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 purse | nmod:poss |
| 2 | purse | purse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 cloak | nsubj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 cloak | cc |
| 4 | cloak | cloak | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | back | back | ADV | _ | 4 cloak | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 bailed | punct |
| 7 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 9 bailed | advmod |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 bailed | nsubj |
| 9 | bailed | bail | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 cloak | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cloak back | infinitive | Her purse | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | bail | past | purse | then | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
Nothing much, she just wanted to hang out and play cards with him
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 2 much | advmod |
| 2 | much | much | ADV | _ | 6 wanted | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 wanted | punct |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 wanted | nsubj |
| 5 | just | just | ADV | _ | 6 wanted | advmod |
| 6 | wanted | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 hang | mark |
| 8 | hang | hang | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 wanted | xcomp |
| 9 | out | out | ADP | _ | 8 hang | compound:prt |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 play | cc |
| 11 | play | play | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres Typo=Yes VerbForm=Fin | 6 wanted | conj |
| 12 | cards | card | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 play | obj |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 him | case |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 play | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | want | past | she | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | hang out not said to happen | to-infinitive | she not said here | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | play | present | she not said here | cards | with him = he | vn play-114.2-1 «NP V NP PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent card=Theme with he=Co-Agent |
Option 3
Her cloak, then nothing
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 cloak | nmod:poss |
| 2 | cloak | cloak | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 nothing | punct |
| 4 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 nothing | advmod |
| 5 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 2 cloak | appos |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Her purse and cloak back, then she bailed out the window when he dozed
The tree, 14 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 purse | nmod:poss |
| 2 | purse | purse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 cloak | nsubj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 cloak | cc |
| 4 | cloak | cloak | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | back | back | ADV | _ | 4 cloak | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 bailed | punct |
| 7 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 9 bailed | advmod |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 bailed | nsubj |
| 9 | bailed | bail | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 cloak | conj |
| 10 | out | out | ADP | _ | 9 bailed | compound:prt |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 window | det |
| 12 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 bailed | obj |
| 13 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 15 dozed | advmod |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 dozed | nsubj |
| 15 | dozed | doze | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 cloak | advcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cloak back | infinitive | Her purse | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | bail out | past | purse | the window | then | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent window=Source | |||
| 3 | doze | past | he | vn snooze-40.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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