Test 12 · ★ · Fairy Tales pg23661, The Island of the Nine Whirlpools, pa…

so the king wanted a boy to be his heir, yeah?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: king · What happens: want, be · To what, where: boy, heir

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 647 «Fairy Tales pg23661, The Island of the Nine Whirlpools, part 1: a Queen buys a baby from a witch, and the King is furious» 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	_	4 wanted	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 king	det
3	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wanted	nsubj
4	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 boy	det
6	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wanted	obj
7	to	to	PART	_	10 heir	mark
8	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	10 heir	cop
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 heir	nmod:poss
10	heir	heir	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 boy	acl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 wanted	punct
12	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 wanted	discourse
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 wanted	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	the king	a boy					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot boy=Theme
2	is a	to-infinitive	the king not said here	king's heir					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

yep, a boy to learn the magic, inherit the throne, and rule the whole kingdom

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yep	yep	INTJ	_	6 learn	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yep	punct
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 boy	det
4	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 learn	nsubj
5	to	to	PART	_	6 learn	mark
6	learn	learn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 magic	det
8	magic	magic	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 learn	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 inherit	punct
10	inherit	inherit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 learn	conj
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 throne	det
12	throne	throne	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 inherit	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 rule	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 rule	cc
15	rule	rule	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 learn	conj
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 kingdom	det
17	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 kingdom	amod
18	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 rule	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	learn	to-infinitive	a boy	the magic	vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent magic=Topic
2	inherit	infinitive	a boy not said here	the throne	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent throne=Theme
3	rule	infinitive	a boy not said here	the whole kingdom	vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kingdom=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

yep, to learn the magic and rule

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yep	yep	INTJ	_	4 learn	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 learn	punct
3	to	to	PART	_	4 learn	mark
4	learn	learn	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 magic	det
6	magic	magic	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 learn	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 rule	cc
8	rule	rule	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 magic	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	learn	to-infinitive		the magic and rule					vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent magic=Topic

Option 3

yep, to learn all the magic from him and rule over every single land

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yep	yep	INTJ	_	4 learn	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 learn	punct
3	to	to	PART	_	4 learn	mark
4	learn	learn	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 magic	det:predet
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 magic	det
7	magic	magic	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 learn	obj
8	from	from	ADP	_	9 him	case
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 magic	nmod
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 rule	cc
11	rule	rule	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 magic	conj
12	over	over	ADP	_	15 land	case
13	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	15 land	det
14	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 land	amod
15	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 learn	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	learn	to-infinitive		all magic and rule		every single land		from him = he	vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent magic=Topic from he=Source

Option 4

yeah, to inherit his big throne

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 inherit	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 inherit	punct
3	to	to	PART	_	4 inherit	mark
4	inherit	inherit	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 throne	nmod:poss
6	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 throne	amod
7	throne	throne	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 inherit	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	inherit	to-infinitive		his big throne					vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent throne=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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