Test 9 · ★ · Fairy Tales, Puddocky, part 49: the three princes fight ov…

Did the youngest prince think the toad could find him a wife?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: youngest prince, toad · What happens: think, find · To what, where: prince · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 1912 «Fairy Tales, Puddocky, part 49: the three princes fight over Parsley, a witch turns her into a toad, and the youngest prince wins the first two tasks with the toad's help» 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	Did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 prince	aux
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 prince	det
3	youngest	young	ADJ	Degree=Sup	4 prince	amod
4	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 think	nsubj
5	think	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 toad	det
7	toad	toad	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 find	nsubj
8	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 find	aux
9	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 think	ccomp
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 find	obj
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 wife	det
12	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 find	obj
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 think	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	present	the youngest prince						vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	find	could	the toad	prince					vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent he=Theme wife=Attribute

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

Nah, he reckoned it was beyond her

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 reckoned	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 reckoned	nsubj
4	reckoned	reckon	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 her	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 her	cop
7	beyond	beyond	ADP	_	8 her	case
8	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 reckoned	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	reckon	past	he						vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	it					beyond her = she	tree rules

Option 2

Yeah, he reckoned she could find him the fairest bride in the whole land

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 reckoned	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 reckoned	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 reckoned	nsubj
4	reckoned	reckon	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 find	nsubj
6	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 find	aux
7	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 reckoned	ccomp
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 find	obj
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 bride	det
10	fairest	fair	ADJ	Degree=Sup	11 bride	amod
11	bride	bride	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 find	obj
12	in	in	ADP	_	15 land	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 land	det
14	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 land	amod
15	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 bride	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	reckon	past	he						vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	find	could	she	him = he					vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent he=Theme bride=Attribute

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Nah, he thought she was wrong

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 thought	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 thought	nsubj
4	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 wrong	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 wrong	cop
7	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 thought	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	he						vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	she					wrong property	tree rules

Option 4

Nah, he reckoned it was beyond her, and then she sorted it out anyway by the river

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 reckoned	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 reckoned	nsubj
4	reckoned	reckon	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 her	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 her	cop
7	beyond	beyond	ADP	_	8 her	case
8	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 reckoned	ccomp
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 sorted	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 sorted	cc
11	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	13 sorted	advmod
12	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 sorted	nsubj
13	sorted	sort	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 reckoned	conj
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 sorted	obj
15	out	out	ADP	_	13 sorted	compound:prt
16	anyway	anyway	ADV	_	13 sorted	advmod
17	by	by	ADP	_	19 river	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 river	det
19	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 sorted	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	reckon	past	he				vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	it			beyond her = she	tree rules
3	sort out	past	she	it	then	by the river; anyway property	vn classify-29.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

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