Test 10 · ★ · Fairy Tales, The Gold-Bearded Man, part 34: the prince fre…

Wait, what's the ring plan with the brook, is the prince doomed?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: wait, be, doom · To what, where: ring plan, prince

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 694 «Fairy Tales, The Gold-Bearded Man, part 34: the prince frees a prisoner, meets three grateful creatures, and is set a grain-sorting task» 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	Wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 plan	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 plan	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 plan	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 plan	det
6	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 plan	compound
7	plan	plan	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Wait	obl
8	with	with	ADP	_	10 brook	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 brook	det
10	brook	brook	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 plan	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 prince	punct
12	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 prince	cop
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 prince	det
14	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 plan	appos
15	doomed	doom	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 prince	acl
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is a	present		the ring plan	with the brook	tree rules
3	is a	present		the prince		tree rules
4	doom	participle		the prince not said here		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 · ✓ the right answer

Yes, they want him to find the ring in the brook

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 want	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 want	nsubj
4	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 want	obj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 find	mark
7	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 want	xcomp
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 ring	det
9	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 find	obj
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 brook	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 brook	det
12	brook	brook	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 ring	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	present	they	him = he					tree rules
2	find not said to happen	to-infinitive	him = he not said here	the ring		the brook			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ring=Topic

Option 2

Yes, he is doomed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 doomed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 doomed	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 doomed	aux:pass
5	doomed	doom	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	doom	present · passive		he					tree rules

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

No, the king will call the whole thing off

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	6 call	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 king	det
4	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 call	nsubj
5	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 call	aux
6	call	call	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 thing	det
8	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 thing	amod
9	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 call	obj
10	off	off	ADP	_	6 call	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	call off speech: assert	future	the king	the whole thing					vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent thing=Recipient

Option 4

Yes, they want him to drown in it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 want	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 want	nsubj
4	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 want	obj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 drown	mark
7	drown	drown	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 want	xcomp
8	in	in	ADP	_	9 it	case
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 drown	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	present	they	him = he					tree rules
2	drown not said to happen	to-infinitive	him = he not said here			it			vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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