Test 10 · ★ · Celtic Fairy Tales, Gold-tree and Silver-tree: the jealous…

Lol, what did the prince say would make him laugh?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: prince · What happens: do, say, make, laugh · To what, where: prince · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1998 «Celtic Fairy Tales, Gold-tree and Silver-tree: the jealous queen's plots end in her own death» 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	Lol	lol	INTJ	_	4 did	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 did	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	7 say	nsubj
7	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 did	parataxis
8	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 make	aux
9	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 say	ccomp
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 make	obj
11	laugh	laugh	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 make	xcomp
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	do	past			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert	present	the prince		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	make	would		prince	tree rules
4	laugh	infinitive	prince not said here		vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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

his wife alive again

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 wife	nmod:poss
2	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 alive	nsubj
3	alive	alive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	again	again	ADV	_	3 alive	advmod

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Gold-tree alive again

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 tree	compound
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	1 Gold	punct
3	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 alive	compound
4	alive	alive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	again	again	ADV	_	4 alive	advmod

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

Option 3

to see Gold-tree come back alive and walk again

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	2 see	mark
2	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 come	advcl
3	Gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 tree	compound
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 Gold	punct
5	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 see	obj
6	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	back	back	ADV	_	6 come	advmod
8	alive	alive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 come	xcomp
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 walk	cc
10	walk	walk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 come	conj
11	again	again	ADV	_	10 walk	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	see	to-infinitive	Gold tree			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer tree=Stimulus
2	come back	present			alive property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	walk	infinitive		again		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

Gold-tree coming back alive out of the locked room

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 tree	compound
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	1 Gold	punct
3	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	coming	come	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 tree	acl
5	back	back	ADV	_	4 coming	advmod
6	alive	alive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 coming	xcomp
7	out	out	ADP	_	11 room	case
8	of	of	ADP	_	11 room	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 room	det
10	locked	lock	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 room	amod
11	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 coming	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come back	gerund	Gold tree not said here			the locked room		alive property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme out room=Initial_Location
2	lock	participle							vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=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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