Test 12 · ★ · Ungarische Mährchen, The Prince and the Crows, part 2: the…
Bruv, what did the servant beg the prince to do?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: servant · What happens: beg, do · To what, where: prince
This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 662 «Ungarische Mährchen, The Prince and the Crows, part 2: the Goldtown bride and the three warnings on the bridge» 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 | Bruv | Bruv | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 beg | vocative |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Bruv | punct |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 7 beg | obj |
| 4 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 beg | aux |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 servant | det |
| 6 | servant | servant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 beg | nsubj |
| 7 | beg | beg | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 prince | det |
| 9 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 beg | obj |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 do | mark |
| 11 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 beg | xcomp |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 beg | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | beg speech: request | past · do-support | the servant | the prince | Bruv vocative | tree rules | |||
| 2 | do not said to happen | to-infinitive | the servant not said here | 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 · ← Mova's choice
wait for dawn
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wait | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 2 | for | for | ADP | _ | 3 dawn | case |
| 3 | dawn | dawn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 wait | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wait | imperative | you not said here | dawn | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 2
leave the carriage and walk across on foot
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | leave | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 carriage | det |
| 3 | carriage | carriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 leave | obj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 walk | cc |
| 5 | walk | walk | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 leave | conj |
| 6 | across | across | ADV | _ | 5 walk | advmod |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 foot | case |
| 8 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 walk | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | imperative | you not said here | the carriage | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent carriage=Theme | ||||
| 2 | walk | infinitive | you not said here | foot | across property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on foot=Trajectory |
Option 3
turn the horses
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn | turn | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 horses | det |
| 3 | horses | horse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 turn | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn | imperative | you not said here | the horses | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V ADJ.result»: agent=Theme horse=Result |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
leave the carriage
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | leave | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 carriage | det |
| 3 | carriage | carriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 leave | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | imperative | you not said here | the carriage | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent carriage=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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/662-pg2435-part2/t12/