Test 8 · ★ · Lilac Fairy Book, Lineik: Lineik sews three robes, Laufer…
Fam, what did the prince want to do to Laufer at first?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Fam · What happens: do, want, laufer · To what, where: prince
This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 699 «Lilac Fairy Book, Lineik: Lineik sews three robes, Laufer confesses, Blauvor is beheaded» 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 | Fam | fam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 want | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 did | punct |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 did | nsubj |
| 4 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Fam | acl:relcl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 prince | det |
| 6 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 did | obj |
| 7 | want | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 do | mark |
| 9 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 want | xcomp |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 Laufer | case |
| 11 | Laufer | laufer | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 do | conj |
| 12 | at | at | ADP | _ | 13 first | case |
| 13 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 11 Laufer | obl |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 want | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | Fam | the prince | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prince=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | want | present | Fam | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | do not said to happen | to-infinitive | Fam not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | laufer | infinitive | Fam not said here | 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 · ✓ the right answer
wanted her to die
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wanted | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 wanted | obj |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 die | mark |
| 4 | die | die | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 wanted | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | want | past | her = she | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | die not said to happen | to-infinitive | her = she not said here | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
Option 2
wanted her to suffer in the dungeon for years
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wanted | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 wanted | obj |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 suffer | mark |
| 4 | suffer | suffer | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 wanted | xcomp |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 dungeon | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 dungeon | det |
| 7 | dungeon | dungeon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 suffer | obl |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 years | case |
| 9 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 suffer | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | want | past | her = she | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | suffer not said to happen | to-infinitive | her = she not said here | the dungeon | year | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
Option 3
wanted her beheaded in the market square
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wanted | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 square | nmod:poss |
| 3 | beheaded | behead | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 square | amod |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 market | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 market | det |
| 6 | market | market | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 square | compound |
| 7 | square | square | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 wanted | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | want | past | her beheaded market square | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot square=Theme | |||||
| 2 | behead | participle | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
Option 4
wanted her jailed
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wanted | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 wanted | obj |
| 3 | jailed | jail | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 wanted | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | want | past | her = she | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | jail not said to happen | participle | her = she not said here | vn confine-92 «NP V NP»: 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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