Test 2 · ★ · Fairy Tales, The Gold-Bearded Man, part 34: the prince fre…

Bro, why did the prince not just shoot the pigeon when he was starving?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: he · What happens: not shoot, starve · To what, where: pigeon

This is test 2 · ★ 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	Bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 shoot	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Bro	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	9 shoot	advmod
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 shoot	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 prince	det
6	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obj
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 shoot	advmod
8	just	just	ADV	_	9 shoot	advmod
9	shoot	shoot	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 pigeon	det
11	pigeon	pigeon	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 shoot	obj
12	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	15 starving	advmod
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 starving	nsubj
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 starving	aux
15	starving	starve	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 shoot	advcl
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 shoot	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not shoot	past · do-support		the pigeon				Bro vocative	vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pigeon=Theme
2	starve	past · progressive	he						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

He was too weak

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 weak	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 weak	cop
3	too	too	ADV	_	4 weak	advmod
4	weak	weak	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	He					weak property	tree rules

Option 2

He felt sorry for it and lowered his bow

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 felt	nsubj
2	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	sorry	sorry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 felt	xcomp
4	for	for	ADP	_	5 it	case
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 felt	obl
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 lowered	cc
7	lowered	lower	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 felt	conj
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 bow	nmod:poss
9	bow	bow	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 lowered	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	feel	past	He					for it; sorry property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
2	lower	past	He not said here	his bow					vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bow=Theme

Option 3

It was too far, so he missed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 far	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 far	cop
3	too	too	ADV	_	4 far	advmod
4	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 far	punct
6	so	so	ADV	_	8 missed	advmod
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 missed	nsubj
8	missed	miss	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 far	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	It					far property	tree rules
2	miss	past	he						vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

The pigeon begged him, so he unstrung his bow

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 pigeon	det
2	pigeon	pigeon	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 begged	nsubj
3	begged	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 begged	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 unstrung	punct
6	so	so	ADV	_	8 unstrung	advmod
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 unstrung	nsubj
8	unstrung	unstring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 begged	conj
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 bow	nmod:poss
10	bow	bow	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 unstrung	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	beg speech: request	past	the pigeon		him = he				vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
2	unstring	past	pigeon	pigeon's bow					tree rules

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