Test 3 · ★ · Violet Fairy Book, The Cat and the Rats (end) and The Prin…

So the prince is basically mad about finding a no-death land?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: prince · What happens: be, find · To what, where: death land

This is test 3 · ★ 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	So	so	ADV	_	6 mad	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 prince	det
3	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 mad	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 mad	cop
5	basically	basically	ADV	_	6 mad	advmod
6	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	about	about	SCONJ	_	8 finding	mark
8	finding	find	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 mad	advcl
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 land	det
10	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	12 death	det
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 no	punct
12	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 land	compound
13	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 finding	obj
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 mad	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the prince					basically, mad property	tree rules
2	find	gerund	the prince not said here	a death land					vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent land=Topic

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

Nah, he's just curious

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 curious	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 curious	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 curious	cop
5	just	just	ADV	_	6 curious	advmod
6	curious	curious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	he					curious property	tree rules

Option 2

Yeah, but he gave up and went home to the castle

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 gave	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 gave	punct
3	but	but	CCONJ	_	5 gave	cc
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 gave	nsubj
5	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	up	up	ADP	_	5 gave	compound:prt
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 went	cc
8	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 gave	conj
9	home	home	ADV	_	8 went	advmod
10	to	to	ADP	_	12 castle	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 castle	det
12	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 went	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give up	past	he						vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	go	past	he not said here			the castle		home property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to castle=Initial_Location

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Nah, he just wants to hunt deer in the forest all day

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 wants	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 wants	nsubj
4	just	just	ADV	_	5 wants	advmod
5	wants	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 hunt	mark
7	hunt	hunt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 wants	xcomp
8	deer	deer	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 hunt	obj
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 forest	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 forest	det
11	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 hunt	obl
12	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	13 day	det
13	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 hunt	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	present	he						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	hunt not said to happen	to-infinitive	he not said here	deer		the forest	day		vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent deer=Theme in forest=Location

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, he's obsessed with it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 obsessed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 obsessed	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 obsessed	cop
5	obsessed	obsessed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	with	with	ADP	_	7 it	case
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 obsessed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	he					with it; obsessed property	tree rules

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