Test 8 · ★ · PG 2435, How To Find Out A True Friend, part 61: the princ…

wait, why did the prince ride back out to check the estates?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, prince · What happens: wait, ride, check · To what, where: estates

This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 721 «PG 2435, How To Find Out A True Friend, part 61: the prince tests two travelling companions with apples and finds a true 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	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 ride	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	7 ride	advmod
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 ride	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 prince	det
6	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 ride	nsubj
7	ride	ride	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 wait	parataxis
8	back	back	ADV	_	9 out	advmod
9	out	out	ADV	_	7 ride	advmod
10	to	to	PART	_	11 check	mark
11	check	check	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 ride	advcl
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 estates	det
13	estates	estate	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 check	obj
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	ride	past · do-support	the prince		out property	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
3	check	to-infinitive	the prince not said here	the estates		vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent estate=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

to see if the king's castle was safe

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	2 see	mark
2	see	see	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	if	if	SCONJ	_	9 safe	mark
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 king	det
5	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 castle	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 king	case
7	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 safe	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 safe	cop
9	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 see	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	to-infinitive							vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	is a condition, not said to happen	past	the king's castle					safe property	tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

to see if his mum's land was cool

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	2 see	mark
2	see	see	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	if	if	SCONJ	_	9 cool	mark
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 mum	nmod:poss
5	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 land	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 mum	case
7	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 cool	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 cool	cop
9	cool	cool	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 see	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	to-infinitive							vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	is a condition, not said to happen	past	his mum's land					cool property	tree rules

Option 3

to see if his mum's land was cool and whether the peasants were paying rent

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	2 see	mark
2	see	see	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	if	if	SCONJ	_	9 cool	mark
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 mum	nmod:poss
5	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 land	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 mum	case
7	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 cool	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 cool	cop
9	cool	cool	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 see	ccomp
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 paying	cc
11	whether	whether	SCONJ	_	15 paying	mark
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 peasants	det
13	peasants	peasant	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 paying	nsubj
14	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 paying	aux
15	paying	pay	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 cool	conj
16	rent	rent	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 paying	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	see	to-infinitive				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	is a condition, not said to happen	past	his mum's land		cool property	tree rules
3	pay	past · progressive	the peasants	rent		vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rent=Asset

Option 4

to make sure the farms were fine, bro

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	2 make	mark
2	make	make	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 make	xcomp
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 farms	det
5	farms	farm	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 fine	nsubj
6	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 fine	cop
7	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 sure	ccomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 bro	punct
9	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 fine	vocative

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	to-infinitive						sure property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset
2	is	past	the farms					bro vocative; fine property	tree rules

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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