Test 13 · ★ · Fairy Tales of Many Lands, The Clever Youth and the Herdsm…

Wait, what did the youth's father warn the marriage would do?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, father, marriage · What happens: wait, warn, do · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 704 «Fairy Tales of Many Lands, The Clever Youth and the Herdsman: he loses the king's golden ox, dodges the scythes, and wins a bride» 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	Wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 warn	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	9 warn	obj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 warn	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 youth	det
6	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 father	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 youth	case
8	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 warn	nsubj
9	warn	warn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Wait	conj
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 marriage	det
11	marriage	marriage	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 do	nsubj
12	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 do	aux
13	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 warn	ccomp
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	warn speech: warn	past · do-support	the youth's father	vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP.recipient that S»: agent=Agent what=Recipient clause=Topic
3	do	would	the marriage	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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

cost him his life

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cost	cost	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 cost	iobj
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 life	nmod:poss
4	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 cost	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cost	imperative	you not said here	his life	him = he				vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Theme he=Beneficiary life=Value

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

kill him at once

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	kill	kill	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 kill	obj
3	at	at	ADP	_	4 once	case
4	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	1 kill	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	kill	imperative	you not said here	him = he					vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme

Option 3

ruin him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	ruin	ruin	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 ruin	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ruin	imperative	you not said here	him = he					vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient

Option 4

end his life

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	end	end	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 life	nmod:poss
3	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 end	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	end	imperative	you not said here	his life					vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality life=Eventuality

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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