Test 11 · ★ · Violet Fairy Book, The Cat and the Rats (end) and The Prin…

Bro, is the eagle really a king when he lands?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: king · What happens: be, land · To what, where: eagle

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 690 «Violet Fairy Book, The Cat and the Rats (end) and The Prince Who Would Seek Immortality, part 1: a cat clears the rats from the palace, and a gloomy prince sets out to find a land where no one dies» 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	Bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 eagle	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Bro	punct
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 eagle	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 eagle	det
5	eagle	eagle	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	really	really	ADV	_	8 king	advmod
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 king	det
8	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 eagle	nmod
9	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	11 lands	advmod
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 lands	nsubj
11	lands	land	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 eagle	parataxis
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 eagle	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		the eagle				Bro vocative; a king nmod	tree rules
2	land	present	king						vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V NP.theme»: 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

Yes, he becomes a prince

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 becomes	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 becomes	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 becomes	nsubj
4	becomes	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 prince	det
6	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 becomes	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	become	present	he	a prince					vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient

Option 2

Nah, he stays an eagle and flies off to the mountains again

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 stays	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 stays	nsubj
4	stays	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 eagle	det
6	eagle	eagle	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stays	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 flies	cc
8	flies	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 stays	conj
9	off	off	ADP	_	8 flies	compound:prt
10	to	to	ADP	_	12 mountains	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 mountains	det
12	mountains	mountain	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 flies	obl
13	again	again	ADV	_	4 stays	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stay	present	he	a eagle			again		vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme eagle=Location
2	fly off	present	he not said here					to the mountains result	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to mountain=Result

Option 3

Yep, he changes into a crowned king with a golden robe and sceptre

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yep	yep	INTJ	_	4 changes	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yep	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 changes	nsubj
4	changes	change	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	into	into	ADP	_	8 king	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 king	det
7	crowned	crown	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 king	amod
8	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 changes	obl
9	with	with	ADP	_	12 robe	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 robe	det
11	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 robe	amod
12	robe	robe	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 changes	obl
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 sceptre	cc
14	sceptre	sceptre	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 robe	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	change	present	he					into a crowned king result; with a golden robe and sceptre	vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.result»: agent=Patient into king=Result
2	crown	participle							vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Yep, he changes into one

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yep	yep	INTJ	_	4 changes	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yep	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 changes	nsubj
4	changes	change	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	into	into	ADP	_	6 one	case
6	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 changes	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	change	present	he					into one result	vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.result»: agent=Patient into one=Result

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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