Test 6 · ★ · Historical Tales, The King and His Hawk, part 14: a thirst…

Fr, what did the king want to do to his hawk?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Fr, king · What happens: do, want

This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 354 «Historical Tales, The King and His Hawk, part 14: a thirsty king is kept from drinking by his pet hawk» 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	Fr	fr	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	nsubj
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 king	det
6	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 want	nsubj
7	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 did	parataxis
8	to	to	PART	_	9 do	mark
9	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 want	xcomp
10	to	to	ADP	_	12 hawk	case
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 hawk	nmod:poss
12	hawk	hawk	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 do	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	do	past	Fr		vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	want	present	the king		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3	do not said to happen	to-infinitive	the king not said here	to king's hawk	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

chase it off

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	chase	chase	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 chase	obj
3	off	off	ADP	_	1 chase	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chase off	imperative	you not said here	it					vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 2

cage it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cage	cage	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 cage	nsubj

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

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

sell the bird

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	sell	sell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 bird	det
3	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 sell	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sell	imperative	you not said here	the bird					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bird=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

wring its neck

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	wring	wring	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 neck	nmod:poss
3	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 wring	appos

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

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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