Test 12 · ★ · Grimm's Household Tales, The Many-Furred Creature: the rin…

Ay, what did the prince's dad want him to do before he died?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: dad, him · What happens: do, want, die · To what, where: him

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 1924 «Grimm's Household Tales, The Many-Furred Creature: the ring, the reel and the wedding» 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	Ay	ay	INTJ	_	4 did	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Ay	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 prince	det
6	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 dad	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 prince	case
8	dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 want	nsubj
9	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 did	parataxis
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 want	obj
11	to	to	PART	_	12 do	mark
12	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 want	xcomp
13	before	before	SCONJ	_	15 died	mark
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 died	nsubj
15	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 do	advcl
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	do	past			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	want	present	the prince's dad	him = he	tree rules
3	do not said to happen	to-infinitive	him = he not said here		vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	die	past	dad		vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=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

marry the King's daughter

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	marry	marry	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 King	det
3	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 daughter	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 King	case
5	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 marry	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	marry	imperative	you not said here	the King's daughter					vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Patient

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

marry the neighbour's daughter

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	marry	marry	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 neighbour	det
3	neighbour	neighbour	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 daughter	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 neighbour	case
5	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 marry	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	marry	imperative	you not said here	the neighbour's daughter					vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Patient

Option 3

marry the neighbour's daughter and rule both lands

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	marry	marry	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 neighbour	det
3	neighbour	neighbour	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 daughter	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 neighbour	case
5	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 marry	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 rule	cc
7	rule	rule	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 marry	conj
8	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	9 lands	det
9	lands	land	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 rule	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	marry	imperative	you not said here	the neighbour's daughter					vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Patient
2	rule	infinitive	you not said here	both lands					vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent land=Theme

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

wed a princess from the north

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	wed	wed	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 princess	det
3	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 wed	obj
4	from	from	ADP	_	6 north	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 north	det
6	north	north	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 wed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wed	imperative	you not said here	a princess		the north			vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent princess=Patient

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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