Test 6 · ★ · Russian Tales, The Staring-Eyed Shepherd: the king's toast…

wait, what was the deal for the princess?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: wait, be · To what, where: deal

This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 666 «Russian Tales, The Staring-Eyed Shepherd: the king's toast and the wedding feast» 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	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 deal	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 deal	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 deal	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 deal	det
6	deal	deal	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 wait	obl
7	for	for	ADP	_	9 princess	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 princess	det
9	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 deal	nmod
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is a	past		the deal				for the princess	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 · ✓ the right answer

he had to say the toast

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 say	mark
4	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 had	xcomp
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 toast	det
6	toast	toast	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 say	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	he						tree rules
2	say speech: assert	to-infinitive	he not said here	the toast					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent toast=Topic

Option 2

a toast

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 toast	det
2	toast	toast	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

say it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	say	say	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 say	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	imperative	you not said here	it					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent it=Topic

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

marry the princess first

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	marry	marry	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 princess	det
3	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 marry	obj
4	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	1 marry	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	marry	imperative	you not said here	the princess				first property	vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent princess=Patient

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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