Test 6 · ★ · Fairy Tales, The Lost Princess and the Prince with the Rin…
Did the stork king save the prince for real or nah?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: stork king · What happens: save · To what, where: prince
This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 695 «Fairy Tales, The Lost Princess and the Prince with the Ring, part 1: the prince is saved by animals, and the eldest brother sets out» 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 | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 save | aux |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 king | det |
| 3 | stork | stork | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 king | compound |
| 4 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 save | nsubj |
| 5 | save | save | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 prince | det |
| 7 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 save | obj |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 real | case |
| 9 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 save | advcl |
| 10 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 11 nah | cc |
| 11 | nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 9 real | discourse |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 save | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | save | past · do-support | the stork king | the prince | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prince=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
Nah, the king had spared the prince
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 6 spared | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 king | det |
| 4 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 spared | nsubj |
| 5 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 spared | aux |
| 6 | spared | spare | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 prince | det |
| 8 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 spared | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spare | past · perfect | the king | the prince | vn bill-54.5 «NP V NP NP.asset»: agent=Agent prince=Asset |
Option 2
Yeah, the prince had spared the duck king's life long before, and so was repaid
The tree, 16 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 6 spared | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 spared | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 prince | det |
| 4 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 spared | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 spared | aux |
| 6 | spared | spare | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 king | det |
| 8 | duck | duck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 king | compound |
| 9 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 life | nmod:poss |
| 10 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 9 king | case |
| 11 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 spared | obj |
| 12 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 13 before | advmod |
| 13 | before | before | ADV | _ | 6 spared | advmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 repaid | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 repaid | cc |
| 16 | so | so | ADV | _ | 18 repaid | advmod |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 repaid | aux:pass |
| 18 | repaid | repay | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 spared | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spare | past · perfect · passive | the prince | before property | vn bill-54.5 «NP V NP NP.asset»: subject=Recipient life=Asset | ||||
| 2 | repay | past · passive | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient» |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Yeah, the prince had spared his life
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 6 spared | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 spared | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 prince | det |
| 4 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 spared | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 spared | aux |
| 6 | spared | spare | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 life | nmod:poss |
| 8 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 spared | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spare | past · perfect · passive | the prince | vn bill-54.5 «NP V NP NP.asset»: subject=Recipient life=Asset |
Option 4
Nah, the duck king only sent ducks because the prince had fed their children in the marsh last winter
The tree, 19 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 7 sent | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 king | det |
| 4 | duck | duck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 king | compound |
| 5 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sent | nsubj |
| 6 | only | only | ADV | _ | 7 sent | advmod |
| 7 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | ducks | duck | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 sent | obj |
| 9 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 13 fed | mark |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 prince | det |
| 11 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 fed | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 fed | aux |
| 13 | fed | feed | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 sent | advcl |
| 14 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 children | nmod:poss |
| 15 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 fed | obj |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 marsh | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 marsh | det |
| 18 | marsh | marsh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 fed | obl |
| 19 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 winter | amod |
| 20 | winter | winter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sent | obl:unmarked |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send | past | the duck king | ducks | winter | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent duck=Theme | |||
| 2 | feed | past · perfect · passive | the prince | the marsh | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient child=Theme |
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