Test 7 · ★ · Fairy Tales (pg2435), The Boy Who Could Keep A Secret: the…

what did the boy ask for before he went with the king?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: boy · What happens: ask, go

This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 670 «Fairy Tales (pg2435), The Boy Who Could Keep A Secret: the king adopts the boy, and the sword slides home» 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	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 ask	obj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 ask	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 boy	det
4	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 ask	nsubj
5	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	for	for	SCONJ	_	9 went	mark
7	before	before	SCONJ	_	9 went	mark
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 went	nsubj
9	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 ask	ccomp
10	with	with	ADP	_	12 king	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 king	det
12	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 went	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 ask	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	past · do-support	the boy						vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent what=Recipient clause=Topic
2	go	past	boy					with the king	vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with king=Beneficiary

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

to get things from garden

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	2 get	mark
2	get	get	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 get	obj
4	from	from	ADP	_	5 garden	case
5	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 get	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	to-infinitive		things		garden			vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent thing=Theme from garden=Source

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

to grab stuff from the garden

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	2 grab	mark
2	grab	grab	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	stuff	stuff	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 grab	obj
4	from	from	ADP	_	6 garden	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 garden	det
6	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 grab	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grab	to-infinitive		stuff		the garden			vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent stuff=Theme from garden=Source

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

to fetch his toys outside

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	2 fetch	mark
2	fetch	fetch	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 toys	nmod:poss
4	toys	toy	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 fetch	obj
5	outside	outside	ADV	_	2 fetch	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fetch	to-infinitive		his toys				outside property	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent toy=Theme

Option 4

to ask his mum to come with him to the palace gates

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	2 ask	mark
2	ask	ask	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 mum	nmod:poss
4	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 ask	obj
5	to	to	PART	_	6 come	mark
6	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 ask	xcomp
7	with	with	ADP	_	8 him	case
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 come	obl
9	to	to	ADP	_	12 gates	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 gates	det
11	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 gates	compound
12	gates	gate	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 come	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	to-infinitive			his mum				vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent mum=Recipient clause=Topic
2	come not said to happen	to-infinitive				the palace gates		with him = he	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to gate=Initial_Location

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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