Test 12 · ★ · Celtic Fairy Tales, The Little Bull-Calf, part 27: the cal…

Whit did the princess say when the boy tried tae untie her?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Whit, princess, boy · What happens: do, say, try, untie · To what, where: princess · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 260 «Celtic Fairy Tales, The Little Bull-Calf, part 27: the calf dies, the boy finds a princess» 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	Whit	whit	NOUN	Number=Sing	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 princess	det
4	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 say	nsubj
5	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 did	parataxis
6	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	9 tried	advmod
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 boy	det
8	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 tried	nsubj
9	tried	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 say	ccomp
10	tae	tae	X	Foreign=Yes	11 untie	mark
11	untie	untie	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 tried	xcomp
12	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 untie	obj
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	do	past	Whit		vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert	present	the princess		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	try	past	the boy		vn try-61.1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	untie not said to happen	infinitive	the boy not said here	princess	vn disassemble-23.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient

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

My hour is come, leave now

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 hour	nmod:poss
2	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 come	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 come	aux:pass
4	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 leave	punct
6	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 come	parataxis
7	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 leave	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	present · passive		My hour					vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme
2	leave	infinitive					now		vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

My time is up, go away

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 time	nmod:poss
2	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 go	obl:unmarked
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 up	cop
4	up	up	ADV	_	2 time	appos
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 time	punct
6	go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	away	away	ADV	_	6 go	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						up property	tree rules
2	go away	imperative	you not said here				time	away property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

Leave me

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Leave	leave	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	1 Leave	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leave	imperative	you not said here	me					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

"My time has come, go away"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 come	punct
2	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 time	nmod:poss
3	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 come	nsubj
4	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 come	aux
5	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 go	advcl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 come	punct
7	go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	away	away	ADV	_	7 go	advmod
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 go	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come in a quote	present · perfect	My time						vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	go away in a quote	imperative	you not said here					away property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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