Test 7 · ★ · Orange Fairy Book, The Story of the Sham Prince, part 1: L…

Why did Labakan put on that fancy robe?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Labakan · What happens: put · To what, where: fancy robe

This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 716 «Orange Fairy Book, The Story of the Sham Prince, part 1: Labakan steals a robe, sets off as a prince, and robs his friend» 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	4 put	advmod
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 put	aux
3	Labakan	Labakan	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 put	nsubj
4	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	on	on	ADP	_	8 robe	case
6	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	8 robe	det
7	fancy	fancy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 robe	amod
8	robe	robe	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 put	obl
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 put	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	put	past · do-support	Labakan			that fancy robe			vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on robe=Destination

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

He felt like a proper prince

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 felt	nsubj
2	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	like	like	ADP	_	6 prince	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 prince	det
5	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 prince	amod
6	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 felt	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	feel	past	He					like a proper prince	vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V S»: agent=Agent like prince=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

He wanted to pretend to be a prince so that the merchants would trust him with their money

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 wanted	nsubj
2	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 pretend	mark
4	pretend	pretend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 wanted	xcomp
5	to	to	PART	_	8 prince	mark
6	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	8 prince	cop
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 prince	det
8	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 pretend	xcomp
9	so	so	SCONJ	_	14 trust	mark
10	that	that	SCONJ	_	14 trust	mark
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 merchants	det
12	merchants	merchant	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 trust	nsubj
13	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 trust	aux
14	trust	trust	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 pretend	advcl
15	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 trust	obj
16	with	with	ADP	_	18 money	case
17	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 money	nmod:poss
18	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 trust	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	want	past	He				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	pretend not said to happen	to-infinitive	He not said here				tree rules
3	is a	to-infinitive	He not said here	a prince			tree rules
4	trust	would	the merchants		him = he	with merchants's money	vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: agent=Agent he=Recipient with money=Theme

Option 3

He had been told by the sultan that a fine robe would make him stand out at the mosque

The tree, 19 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 told	nsubj
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 told	aux
3	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 told	aux:pass
4	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	by	by	ADP	_	7 sultan	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 sultan	det
7	sultan	sultan	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 told	obl
8	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 make	obj
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 robe	det
10	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 robe	amod
11	robe	robe	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 make	nsubj
12	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 make	aux
13	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 sultan	acl:relcl
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 make	obj
15	stand	stand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 make	xcomp
16	out	out	ADP	_	15 stand	compound:prt
17	at	at	ADP	_	19 mosque	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 mosque	det
19	mosque	mosque	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 stand	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past · perfect · passive	the sultan	He		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent subject=Recipient
2	make	would	a fine robe	the sultan		tree rules
3	stand out	infinitive	the sultan not said here		the mosque	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at mosque=Location

Option 4

He wanted to look rich

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 wanted	nsubj
2	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 look	mark
4	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 wanted	xcomp
5	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 look	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	He						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	look not said to happen	to-infinitive	He not said here					rich property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

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