Test 8 · ★ · Fairy Tales, The Lost Princess and the Prince with the Rin…
Why did the king hand the prince his daughter, fr?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: king · What happens: hand · To what, where: daughter, prince
This is test 8 · ★ 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 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 hand | advmod |
| 2 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 hand | aux |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 king | det |
| 4 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 hand | nsubj |
| 5 | hand | hand | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 prince | det |
| 7 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 hand | obj |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 9 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 hand | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 fr | punct |
| 11 | fr | fr | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 daughter | conj |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 hand | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hand | past · do-support | the king | king's daughter and fr | the prince | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent prince=Destination daughter=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 · ✓ the right answer
The baby made the king a believer
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 baby | det |
| 2 | baby | baby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 made | nsubj |
| 3 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 king | det |
| 5 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 made | obj |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 believer | det |
| 7 | believer | believer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 made | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | the baby | a believer | the king | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset king=Beneficiary believer=Product |
Option 2
The baby won over the king
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 baby | det |
| 2 | baby | baby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 won | nsubj |
| 3 | won | win | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | over | over | ADP | _ | 6 king | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 king | det |
| 6 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 won | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | win | past | the baby | over the king | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice
The prince threatened the king with a sword until the king gave in to his demands
The tree, 16 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 prince | det |
| 2 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 threatened | nsubj |
| 3 | threatened | threaten | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 king | det |
| 5 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 threatened | obj |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 sword | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 sword | det |
| 8 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 threatened | obl |
| 9 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 12 gave | mark |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 king | det |
| 11 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 gave | nsubj |
| 12 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 threatened | advcl |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 gave | compound:prt |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 demands | case |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 demands | nmod:poss |
| 16 | demands | demand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 gave | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | threaten | past | the prince | the king | with a sword | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus king=Experiencer | |||
| 2 | give in | past | the king | to king's demands | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to demand=Theme | ||||
| 3 | demand | king | nom demand «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
Option 4
The baby proved the prince's magic was real and the king became convinced
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 baby | det |
| 2 | baby | baby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 proved | nsubj |
| 3 | proved | prove | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 prince | det |
| 5 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 magic | nmod:poss |
| 6 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 5 prince | case |
| 7 | magic | magic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 real | nsubj |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 real | cop |
| 9 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 proved | ccomp |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 became | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 king | det |
| 12 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 became | nsubj |
| 13 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 proved | conj |
| 14 | convinced | convinced | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 became | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | prove | past | the baby | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is | past | the prince's magic | real property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | become | past | the king | convinced property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
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