Test 12 · ★ · Fairy Book, Prince Vivien, part 53: a hungry prince, a pat…

What happened with that dish at the feast, then?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · What happens: happen · To what, where: feast

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 1916 «Fairy Book, Prince Vivien, part 53: a hungry prince, a patient old woman, and a bell at the castle» 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	2 happened	nsubj
2	happened	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	with	with	ADP	_	5 dish	case
4	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 dish	det
5	dish	dish	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 happened	obl
6	at	at	ADP	_	8 feast	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 feast	det
8	feast	feast	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 happened	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 then	punct
10	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 happened	advmod
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 happened	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	past				the feast	then	with that dish	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at feast=Location

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 tried to shift it, but it was stuck

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 tried	nsubj
2	tried	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 shift	mark
4	shift	shift	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 tried	xcomp
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 shift	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 stuck	punct
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	10 stuck	cc
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 stuck	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 stuck	cop
10	stuck	stuck	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 tried	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	try	past	He			vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	shift not said to happen	to-infinitive	He not said here	it		vn caused_calibratable_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Causer it=Patient
3	is	past	it		stuck property	tree rules

Option 2

He tried to eat it, but it was empty

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 tried	nsubj
2	tried	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 eat	mark
4	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 tried	xcomp
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 eat	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 empty	punct
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	10 empty	cc
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 empty	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 empty	cop
10	empty	empty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 tried	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	try	past	He			vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	eat not said to happen	to-infinitive	He not said here	it		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
3	is	past	it		empty property	tree rules

Option 3

He tried to lick it, but it was hot

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 tried	nsubj
2	tried	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 lick	mark
4	lick	lick	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 tried	xcomp
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 lick	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 hot	punct
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	10 hot	cc
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 hot	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 hot	cop
10	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 tried	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	try	past	He			vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	lick not said to happen	to-infinitive	He not said here	it		vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Theme
3	is	past	it		hot property	tree rules

Option 4

He tried to throw it, but it was gone

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 tried	nsubj
2	tried	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 throw	mark
4	throw	throw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 tried	xcomp
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 throw	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 gone	punct
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	10 gone	cc
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 gone	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 gone	cop
10	gone	gone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 tried	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	try	past	He			vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	throw not said to happen	to-infinitive	He not said here	it		vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
3	is	past	it		gone property	tree rules

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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