Test 9 · ★ · Fairy Tales, The Sword of Strength, part 24: the prince is…

Real talk, why did the prince fall down on his knees and beg for mercy?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: prince · What happens: fall down · To what, where: knees

This is test 9 · ★ 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	Real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 talk	amod
2	talk	talk	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 fall	punct
4	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	8 fall	advmod
5	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 fall	aux
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 prince	det
7	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 fall	nsubj
8	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 talk	conj
9	down	down	ADV	_	8 fall	advmod
10	on	on	ADP	_	12 knees	case
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 knees	nmod:poss
12	knees	knee	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 fall	obl
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 beg	cc
14	beg	beg	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 knees	conj
15	for	for	ADP	_	16 mercy	case
16	mercy	mercy	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 beg	nmod
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 talk	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall down	past · do-support	the prince			prince's knees and beg for mercy		down property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on knee=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

He saw the robber raise a knife to strike

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 saw	nsubj
2	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 robber	det
4	robber	robber	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 raise	nsubj
5	raise	raise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 saw	ccomp
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 knife	det
7	knife	knife	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 raise	obj
8	to	to	PART	_	9 strike	mark
9	strike	strike	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 raise	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	see	past	He		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	raise	infinitive	the robber	a knife	vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent knife=Theme
3	strike	to-infinitive	the robber not said here		vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

He knew the robber was about to do something awful

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 knew	nsubj
2	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 robber	det
4	robber	robber	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 about	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 about	cop
6	about	about	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 knew	ccomp
7	to	to	PART	_	8 do	mark
8	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 about	xcomp
9	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	8 do	obj
10	awful	awful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 something	amod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	know	past	He			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	is	past	the robber		about property	tree rules
3	do	to-infinitive	the robber not said here	something		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Eventuality

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

He realized the robber was planning something truly terrible and wanted to stop him at once

The tree, 16 words

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 realized	nsubj
2	realized	realize	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 robber	det
4	robber	robber	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 planning	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 planning	aux
6	planning	plan	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 realized	ccomp
7	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	6 planning	obj
8	truly	truly	ADV	_	9 terrible	advmod
9	terrible	terrible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 something	amod
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 wanted	cc
11	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 realized	conj
12	to	to	PART	_	13 stop	mark
13	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 wanted	xcomp
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 stop	obj
15	at	at	ADP	_	16 once	case
16	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	13 stop	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	realize	past	He		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	plan	past · progressive	the robber	something	vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Topic
3	want	past	He not said here		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
4	stop not said to happen	to-infinitive	He not said here	robber	vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality he=Eventuality

Option 4

He thought the robber would hurt his mother badly

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 thought	nsubj
2	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 robber	det
4	robber	robber	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 hurt	nsubj
5	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 hurt	aux
6	hurt	hurt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 thought	ccomp
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 mother	nmod:poss
8	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 hurt	obj
9	badly	badly	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 hurt	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	He						vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	hurt	would	the robber	robber's mother				badly property	vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer mother=Patient

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