Test 3 · ★ · Yellow Fairy Book, Princess Placida: the two cousins' ques…

innit, what was the green lion supposed to do to Placida?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: innit · What happens: be, suppose, do · To what, where: green lion, Placida

This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 1920 «Yellow Fairy Book, Princess Placida: the two cousins' quests end in joy» 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	innit	innit	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 lion	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 innit	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 lion	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 lion	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 lion	det
6	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 lion	amod
7	lion	lion	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	supposed	suppose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 lion	acl
9	to	to	PART	_	10 do	mark
10	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 supposed	xcomp
11	to	to	ADP	_	12 Placida	case
12	Placida	Placida	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 do	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 lion	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	is a	past	innit	the green lion		tree rules
2	suppose	participle		the green lion not said here		vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	do	to-infinitive			Placida	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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

eat her

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 eat	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	imperative	you not said here	her = she					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

bring her back

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	bring	bring	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 bring	obj
3	back	back	ADV	_	1 bring	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bring back	imperative	you not said here		her = she				vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument she=Destination

Option 3

kill her

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	kill	kill	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 kill	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	kill	imperative	you not said here	her = she					vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

guard the gate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	guard	guard	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 gate	det
3	gate	gate	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 guard	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	guard	imperative	you not said here	the gate					vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gate=Beneficiary

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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