Test 6 · ★ · Fairy Book, The Prince and Death, part 32: the prince wake…

What did the queen throw him up for, mate?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: queen · What happens: throw up · To what, where: him

This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 692 «Fairy Book, The Prince and Death, part 32: the prince wakes the dead and Death loses his prize, then a stone-cutter wishes for more» 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 throw	obj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 throw	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 queen	det
4	queen	queen	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 throw	nsubj
5	throw	throw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 throw	obj
7	up	up	ADP	_	5 throw	compound:prt
8	for	for	ADP	_	10 mate	case
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 for	punct
10	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 throw	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 throw	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	throw up	past · do-support	the queen	him = he				for mate	tree rules

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

To end the game

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 end	mark
2	end	end	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 game	det
4	game	game	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 end	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	end	to-infinitive		the game					vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality game=Eventuality

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

To win a wager

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 win	mark
2	win	win	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 wager	det
4	wager	wager	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 win	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	win	to-infinitive		a wager					vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wager=Eventuality

Option 3

For fun

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	For	for	ADP	_	2 fun	case
2	fun	fun	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4

To test his luck

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 test	mark
2	test	test	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 luck	nmod:poss
4	luck	luck	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 test	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	test	to-infinitive		his luck					vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent luck=Theme

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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