Test 9 · ★ · Household Tales, The Golden Bird, part 71: the Prince fail…

Nah seriously, how long did the Prince get for the mermaid?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Prince · What happens: do, get

This is test 9 · ★ 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	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 did	discourse
2	seriously	seriously	ADV	_	1 Nah	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 did	punct
4	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	5 long	advmod
5	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 did	advmod
6	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Prince	det
8	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 get	nsubj
9	get	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 did	parataxis
10	for	for	ADP	_	12 mermaid	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 mermaid	det
12	mermaid	mermaid	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 get	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past						long property	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	get	present	the Prince					for the mermaid	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for mermaid=Beneficiary

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 · ✓ the right answer

three days, that's it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 days	nummod
2	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 it	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 days	punct
4	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 it	nsubj
5	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 it	cop
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	three days	it					tree rules

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

three days, no extensions at all, and if he failed he'd be beheaded straight away

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 days	nummod
2	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 extensions	punct
4	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	5 extensions	det
5	extensions	extension	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 days	conj
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 all	case
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 extensions	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 failed	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 failed	cc
10	if	if	SCONJ	_	12 failed	mark
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 failed	nsubj
12	failed	fail	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 days	acl:relcl
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 beheaded	nsubj:pass
14	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 beheaded	aux
15	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	16 beheaded	aux:pass
16	beheaded	behead	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 failed	parataxis
17	straight	straight	ADV	_	18 away	advmod
18	away	away	ADV	_	16 beheaded	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fail	past	he	three days and no extensions at all not said here					vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent day=Eventuality
2	behead	would · passive		he				away property	vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

Option 3

four days, no more

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 days	nummod
2	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 days	punct
4	no	no	ADV	_	5 more	advmod
5	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 days	appos

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4

two days, that's it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 days	nummod
2	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 it	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 days	punct
4	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 it	nsubj
5	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 it	cop
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	two days	it					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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