Test 6 · ★ · Fairy Tales, The Gold-Bearded Man, part 34: the prince fre…

Did the prince actually fail the grain thing or nah?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · What happens: do, fail · To what, where: prince, grain thing

This is test 6 · ★ 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	actually	actually	ADV	_	5 fail	advmod
5	fail	fail	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Did	advcl
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 thing	det
7	grain	grain	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 thing	compound
8	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 fail	obj
9	or	or	CCONJ	_	10 nah	cc
10	nah	nah	INTJ	_	8 thing	discourse
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past		the prince					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prince=Eventuality
2	fail	present		the grain thing				actually property	vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Eventuality

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

Yes, he failed and was put to death

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 failed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 failed	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 failed	nsubj
4	failed	fail	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 put	cc
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 put	aux:pass
7	put	put	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 failed	conj
8	to	to	ADP	_	9 death	case
9	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 put	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fail	past	he						vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	put	past · passive	he not said here					to death	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Nah, he passed, and the king made him steward

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 passed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 passed	nsubj
4	passed	pass	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 made	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 made	cc
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 king	det
8	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 made	nsubj
9	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 passed	conj
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 made	obj
11	steward	steward	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 made	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	pass	past	he		vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	make	past	the king	him = he	tree rules
3	steward	infinitive	him = he not said here		tree rules

Option 3

Nah, he passed the test, and afterwards the king made him steward of the whole household

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 passed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 passed	nsubj
4	passed	pass	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 test	det
6	test	test	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 passed	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 made	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 made	cc
9	afterwards	afterwards	ADV	_	12 made	advmod
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 king	det
11	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 made	nsubj
12	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 passed	conj
13	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 made	obj
14	steward	steward	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 made	xcomp
15	of	of	ADP	_	18 household	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 household	det
17	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 household	amod
18	household	household	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 steward	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	pass	past	he	the test		vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme test=Trajectory
2	make	past	the king	him = he	afterwards property	tree rules
3	steward	infinitive	him = he not said here		of the whole household	tree rules

Option 4

Nah, he failed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 failed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 failed	nsubj
4	failed	fail	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fail	past	he						vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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