Test 11 · ★ · Fairy Tales, The Gold-Bearded Man, part 34: the prince fre…

Did the prince ever want to just wait for his stepfather to come back?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: do, want, wait, come back · To what, where: prince

This is test 11 · ★ 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	Did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 prince	det
3	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Did	obj
4	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	5 want	advmod
5	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Did	advcl
6	to	to	PART	_	8 wait	mark
7	just	just	ADV	_	8 wait	advmod
8	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 want	xcomp
9	for	for	ADP	_	11 stepfather	case
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 stepfather	nmod:poss
11	stepfather	stepfather	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 wait	obl
12	to	to	PART	_	13 come	mark
13	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 wait	advcl
14	back	back	ADV	_	13 come	advmod
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	the prince			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prince=Eventuality
2	want	present		ever		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3	wait not said to happen	to-infinitive			for his stepfather	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	come back	to-infinitive				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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

He did think about it, but being too scared of the coming death, he fled into the open wilderness at once

The tree, 21 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	3 think	nsubj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 think	aux
3	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	about	about	ADP	_	5 it	case
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 think	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 scared	punct
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	10 scared	cc
8	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 scared	cop
9	too	too	ADV	_	10 scared	advmod
10	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 think	conj
11	of	of	ADP	_	14 death	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 death	det
13	coming	come	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 death	amod
14	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 scared	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 fled	punct
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 fled	nsubj
17	fled	flee	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 think	parataxis
18	into	into	ADP	_	21 wilderness	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 wilderness	det
20	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 wilderness	amod
21	wilderness	wilderness	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 fled	obl
22	at	at	ADP	_	23 once	case
23	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	17 fled	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past · do-support	He		about it	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about it=Topic
2	is	gerund	He not said here		of the coming death; scared property	tree rules
3	come	gerund				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	flee	past	he	the open wilderness		vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into wilderness=Initial_Location

Option 2

He was too scared to wait, so he ran off into the wild and never looked back at the palace

The tree, 20 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	4 scared	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 scared	cop
3	too	too	ADV	_	4 scared	advmod
4	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 wait	mark
6	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 scared	xcomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 ran	punct
8	so	so	ADV	_	10 ran	advmod
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 ran	nsubj
10	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 scared	conj
11	off	off	ADP	_	10 ran	compound:prt
12	into	into	ADP	_	14 wild	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 wild	det
14	wild	wild	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 ran	obl
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 looked	cc
16	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	17 looked	advmod
17	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 scared	conj
18	back	back	ADV	_	17 looked	advmod
19	at	at	ADP	_	21 palace	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 palace	det
21	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 looked	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is	past	He	scared property	tree rules
2	wait	to-infinitive	He not said here		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	run off	past	he	into the wild result	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into wild=Result
4	not look back	past	He not said here	at the palace	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at palace=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

He was too scared, so he ran off into the wild

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	4 scared	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 scared	cop
3	too	too	ADV	_	4 scared	advmod
4	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 ran	punct
6	so	so	ADV	_	8 ran	advmod
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 ran	nsubj
8	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 scared	conj
9	off	off	ADP	_	8 ran	compound:prt
10	into	into	ADP	_	12 wild	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 wild	det
12	wild	wild	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 ran	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	He					scared property	tree rules
2	run off	past	he					into the wild result	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into wild=Result

Option 4

He hid in the palace for hours before leaving

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 hid	nsubj
2	hid	hide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 palace	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 palace	det
5	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 hid	obl
6	for	for	ADP	_	7 hours	case
7	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 hid	obl
8	before	before	SCONJ	_	9 leaving	mark
9	leaving	leave	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 hid	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hide	past	He			the palace	hour		vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in palace=Location
2	leave	gerund	He not said here						vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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