Test 12 · ★ · The Happy Prince and Other Tales, The Happy Prince, part 1…
What did the Prince want him to do, mate?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Prince, him · What happens: do, want · To what, where: him
This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 2031 «The Happy Prince and Other Tales, The Happy Prince, part 1: the Swallow meets the weeping statue and agrees to help» 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 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 2 did | nsubj |
| 2 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Prince | det |
| 4 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 want | nsubj |
| 5 | want | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 did | ccomp |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 want | obj |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 do | mark |
| 8 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 want | xcomp |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 mate | punct |
| 10 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 do | vocative |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | want | present | the Prince | him = he | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | do not said to happen | to-infinitive | him = he not said here | mate vocative | vn act-114-1 «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 · ✓ the right answer
Take the ruby out of his sword to the poor family
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Take | take | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 ruby | det |
| 3 | ruby | ruby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Take | obj |
| 4 | out | out | ADP | _ | 7 sword | case |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 sword | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 sword | nmod:poss |
| 7 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Take | obl |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 family | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 family | det |
| 10 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 family | amod |
| 11 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Take | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | imperative | you not said here | the ruby | his sword | to the poor family | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent ruby=Theme out sword=Initial_Location to family=Destination |
Option 2
Take the sapphire from his eyes to the poor
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Take | take | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 sapphire | det |
| 3 | sapphire | sapphire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Take | obj |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 6 eyes | case |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 6 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Take | obl |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 poor | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 poor | det |
| 9 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Take | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | imperative | you not said here | the sapphire | his eyes | to the poor | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent sapphire=Theme from eye=Initial_Location to poor=Destination |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice
Pull off the gold leaf and hand it to the poor
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Pull | pull | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | off | off | ADP | _ | 1 Pull | compound:prt |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 leaf | det |
| 4 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 leaf | compound |
| 5 | leaf | leaf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Pull | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 hand | cc |
| 7 | hand | hand | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Pull | conj |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 hand | obj |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 poor | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 poor | det |
| 11 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 hand | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pull off | imperative | you not said here | the gold leaf | vn complete-55.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leaf=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | hand | infinitive | you not said here | leaf | the poor | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme to poor=Destination |
Option 4
Take the ruby out of his sword and deliver it to the poor family in the attic
The tree, 17 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Take | take | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 ruby | det |
| 3 | ruby | ruby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Take | obj |
| 4 | out | out | ADP | _ | 7 sword | case |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 sword | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 sword | nmod:poss |
| 7 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Take | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 deliver | cc |
| 9 | deliver | deliver | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Take | conj |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 deliver | obj |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 family | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 family | det |
| 13 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 family | amod |
| 14 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 deliver | obl |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 attic | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 attic | det |
| 17 | attic | attic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 deliver | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | imperative | you not said here | the ruby | his sword | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent ruby=Theme out sword=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | deliver | present | you not said here | ruby | the attic | to the poor family | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme to family=Destination |
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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