Test 12 · ★ · Household Tales, The Golden Bird, part 71: the Prince fail…

Mate, did the wolf actually have a plan or was he winging it?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Mate · What happens: do, have, wing · To what, where: wolf, plan

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 1934 «Household Tales, The Golden Bird, part 71: the Prince fails to steal the golden horse and is caught» 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	Mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Mate	punct
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 wolf	det
5	wolf	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	obj
6	actually	actually	ADV	_	7 have	advmod
7	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 did	advcl
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 plan	det
9	plan	plan	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 have	obj
10	or	or	CCONJ	_	13 winging	cc
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 winging	aux
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 winging	nsubj
13	winging	wing	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 did	conj
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 winging	obj
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	do	past	Mate	the wolf		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wolf=Eventuality
2	have	present	Mate not said here	a plan	actually property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plan=Patient
3	wing	past · progressive	Mate	plan		vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent it=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

He winged it, then charmed them

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 winged	nsubj
2	winged	wing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 winged	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 charmed	punct
5	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 charmed	advmod
6	charmed	charm	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 winged	conj
7	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 charmed	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wing	past	He	it					vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent it=Location
2	charm	past	He not said here	them = they			then		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus they=Experiencer

Option 2

Nah, winging it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	3 winging	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 winging	punct
3	winging	wing	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 winging	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wing	gerund		it					vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme it=Trajectory

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

He had a plan, bewitched the guards

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 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 plan	det
4	plan	plan	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 had	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 bewitched	punct
6	bewitched	bewitch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 had	conj
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 guards	det
8	guards	guard	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 bewitched	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	He	a plan					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plan=Patient
2	bewitch	past	He not said here	the guards					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus guard=Experiencer

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

He had a plan, tricked the king

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 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 plan	det
4	plan	plan	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 had	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 tricked	punct
6	tricked	trick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 had	conj
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 king	det
8	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 tricked	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	He	a plan					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plan=Patient
2	trick	past	He not said here	the king					vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent king=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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