Test 9 · ★ · Household Tales, The Two Friends: a king's poison fails, a…

why did the king want the prince to stay?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: king, prince · What happens: want, stay · To what, where: prince

This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 722 «Household Tales, The Two Friends: a king's poison fails, a friend is revived, and a saint asks for a baby's blood» 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 want	advmod
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 want	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 king	det
4	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 want	nsubj
5	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 prince	det
7	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 want	obj
8	to	to	PART	_	9 stay	mark
9	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 want	xcomp
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 want	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past · do-support	the king	the prince					tree rules
2	stay not said to happen	to-infinitive	the prince not said here						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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 · ✓ the right answer

so he could marry his daughter

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	so	so	ADV	_	4 marry	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 marry	nsubj
3	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 marry	aux
4	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 daughter	nmod:poss
6	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 marry	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	marry	could	he	his daughter					vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Patient

Option 2

to save money

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	2 save	mark
2	save	save	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 save	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	save	to-infinitive		money					vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Theme

Option 3

to make the friend jealous

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	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 friend	det
4	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 make	obj
5	jealous	jealous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 make	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	to-infinitive		the friend				jealous property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset friend=Product

Option 4

for the feast

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	for	for	ADP	_	3 feast	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 feast	det
3	feast	feast	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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