Test 11 · ★ · Fairy Tales, The Sword of Strength, part 24: the prince is…

Yo, why was the castle the robbers lived in so fancy and big?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: castle · What happens: be, live · To what, where: castle, fancy

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 684 «Fairy Tales, The Sword of Strength, part 24: the prince is blinded and goes to the giant» 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	Yo	yo	INTJ	_	6 castle	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yo	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	6 castle	advmod
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 castle	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 castle	det
6	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 lived	nsubj
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 robbers	det
8	robbers	robber	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 lived	nsubj
9	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 fancy	case
11	so	so	ADV	_	12 fancy	advmod
12	fancy	fancy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 lived	obl
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 big	cc
14	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 fancy	conj
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 lived	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the castle					tree rules
2	live	past	the castle			fancy			vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in fancy=Location

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

Because the giant had built it for them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Because	because	SCONJ	_	5 built	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 giant	det
3	giant	giant	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 built	nsubj:pass
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 built	aux
5	built	build	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 built	obj
7	for	for	ADP	_	8 them	case
8	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 built	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	build	past · perfect · passive		the giant				for them = they	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP NP PP.asset»: subject=Beneficiary it=Product for they=Asset

Option 2

Cuz they stole a ton of gold and built a massive secret palace nobody could find

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cuz	Cuz	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 stole	nsubj
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 stole	nsubj
3	stole	steal	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 ton	det
5	ton	ton	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 stole	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 gold	case
7	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 ton	nmod
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 built	cc
9	built	build	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 stole	conj
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 palace	det
11	massive	massive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 palace	amod
12	secret	secret	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 palace	compound
13	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 built	obj
14	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	16 find	nsubj
15	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 find	aux
16	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 palace	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	steal	past	Cuz	a ton of gold	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location ton=Theme
2	build	past	Cuz not said here	a massive secret palace	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset palace=Product
3	find	could	nobody	a massive secret palace not said here	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent palace=Topic

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Because it was a secret castle, lowkey splendid

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Because	because	SCONJ	_	6 castle	mark
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 castle	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 castle	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 castle	det
5	secret	secret	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 castle	amod
6	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 lowkey	punct
8	lowkey	lowkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 castle	conj
9	splendid	splendid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 lowkey	amod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	it	a secret castle and lowkey					tree rules

Option 4

Because the robbers had built it in secret so nobody would ever find it, and it was super fancy inside

The tree, 20 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Because	because	SCONJ	_	5 built	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 robbers	det
3	robbers	robber	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 built	nsubj:pass
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 built	aux
5	built	build	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 built	obj
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 secret	case
8	secret	secret	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 built	obl
9	so	so	SCONJ	_	13 find	mark
10	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	13 find	nsubj
11	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 find	aux
12	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	13 find	advmod
13	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 built	advcl
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 find	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 fancy	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 fancy	cc
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 fancy	nsubj
18	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 fancy	cop
19	super	super	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 fancy	amod
20	fancy	fancy	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 built	obl
21	inside	inside	ADV	_	20 fancy	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	build	past · perfect · passive		the robbers	secret			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary it=Product
2	find	would	nobody	secret		ever		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic
3	is a	past	secret	super fancy			inside property	tree rules

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