Test 12 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, The Red Ettin: the young man beats th…

so the queen of fairies, was she up for the baby or did she ignore him?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: queen · What happens: be

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 1963 «English Fairy Tales, The Red Ettin: the young man beats the three-headed Ettin with riddles and a magic wand, and frees the king's daughter and the prisoners.» 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	so	so	ADV	_	7 was	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 queen	det
3	queen	queen	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 was	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 fairies	case
5	fairies	fairy	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 queen	nmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 queen	punct
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 ignore	cop
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 was	nsubj
9	up	up	ADP	_	7 was	compound:prt
10	for	for	ADP	_	12 baby	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 baby	det
12	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 was	obl
13	or	or	CCONJ	_	7 was	cc
14	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 ignore	aux
15	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 ignore	nsubj
16	ignore	ignore	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
17	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 ignore	obj
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	16 ignore	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past · do-support	queen					ignore property	tree rules

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

she kissed him and named him, then rode away

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 kissed	nsubj
2	kissed	kiss	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 kissed	obj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 named	cc
5	named	name	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 kissed	conj
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 named	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 rode	punct
8	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	9 rode	advmod
9	rode	ride	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 kissed	conj
10	away	away	ADV	_	9 rode	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	kiss	past	she	him = he			vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-Agent
2	name	past	she not said here	him = he			vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
3	ride away	past	she not said here		then	away property	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

she kissed him, blessed him and named him Tom

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 kissed	nsubj
2	kissed	kiss	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 kissed	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 blessed	punct
5	blessed	bless	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 kissed	conj
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 blessed	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 named	cc
8	named	name	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 kissed	parataxis
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 named	obj
10	Tom	Tom	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 named	vocative

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	kiss	past	she	him = he		vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-Agent
2	bless	past	she not said here	him = he		vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
3	name	past		him = he	Tom vocative	vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

she kissed him and named him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 kissed	nsubj
2	kissed	kiss	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 kissed	obj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 named	cc
5	named	name	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 kissed	conj
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 named	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	kiss	past	she	him = he					vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-Agent
2	name	past	she not said here	him = he					vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme

Option 4

she gave him a silver ring

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 gave	nsubj
2	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 gave	iobj
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 ring	det
5	silver	silver	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 ring	amod
6	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 gave	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	past	she	a silver ring	him = he				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient ring=Theme

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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