Test 13 · ★ · Household Tales, The Golden Bird, part 71: the Prince fail…
Innit, why did the Prince even leave home in the first place?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: leave · To what, where: first place
This is test 13 · ★ 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 | Innit | Innit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 leave | vocative |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Innit | punct |
| 3 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 8 leave | advmod |
| 4 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 leave | aux |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Prince | det |
| 6 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 did | obj |
| 7 | even | even | ADV | _ | 8 leave | advmod |
| 8 | leave | leave | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | home | home | ADV | _ | 8 leave | advmod |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 place | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 place | det |
| 12 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 13 place | amod |
| 13 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 leave | obl |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 8 leave | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | past · do-support | in the first place result; Innit vocative; home property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in place=Result |
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
cos the silver apples went missing
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cos | cos | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 apples | det |
| 3 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 apples | compound |
| 4 | apples | apple | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 went | nsubj |
| 5 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 cos | ccomp |
| 6 | missing | missing | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 went | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cos | imperative | you not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | go | past | the silver apples | missing property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
cos the golden apples got nicked
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cos | cos | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 apples | det |
| 3 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 apples | amod |
| 4 | apples | apple | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 nicked | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | got | get | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 nicked | aux:pass |
| 6 | nicked | nick | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 cos | ccomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cos | imperative | you not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | nick | past · passive | the golden apples | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
Option 3
cos the golden apples from the Emperor's orchard got nicked and nobody could find out who did it
The tree, 19 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cos | cos | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 apples | det |
| 3 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 apples | amod |
| 4 | apples | apple | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 cos | obj |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 9 orchard | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Emperor | det |
| 7 | Emperor | Emperor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 orchard | nmod:poss |
| 8 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 7 Emperor | case |
| 9 | orchard | orchard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 nicked | obl |
| 10 | got | get | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 nicked | aux:pass |
| 11 | nicked | nick | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 cos | parataxis |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 find | cc |
| 13 | nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 15 find | nsubj |
| 14 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 find | aux |
| 15 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 cos | conj |
| 16 | out | out | ADP | _ | 15 find | compound:prt |
| 17 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 did | nsubj |
| 18 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 find | ccomp |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 did | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cos | imperative | you not said here | the golden apples | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | nick | past · passive | the Emperor's orchard | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle» | |||||
| 3 | find out | could | nobody | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | do | past | orchard | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality |
Option 4
cos his dad told him to
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cos | co | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 told | aux |
| 2 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 dad | nmod:poss |
| 3 | dad | dad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 told | nsubj |
| 4 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 told | iobj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 told | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | present | his dad | him = he | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient |
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