Test 13 · ★ · Household Tales, Ashputtel, part 35: a cruel stepmother se…
Bruv, why'd the prince want to follow her home?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: prince · What happens: want, follow · To what, where: prince, home
This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 759 «Household Tales, Ashputtel, part 35: a cruel stepmother sets impossible tasks, and a hazel-tree brings Ashputtel a golden dress for the king's feast» 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 | Bruv | Bruv | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 want | vocative |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Bruv | punct |
| 3 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 want | advmod |
| 4 | 'd | 'd | PUNCT | _ | 6 prince | punct |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 prince | det |
| 6 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 want | obl |
| 7 | want | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 follow | mark |
| 9 | follow | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 want | xcomp |
| 10 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 home | nmod:poss |
| 11 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 follow | obj |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 want | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | want | present | the prince | Bruv vocative | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | ||||
| 2 | follow not said to happen | to-infinitive | the prince not said here | Bruv's home | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent home=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 ask her dad for a dance
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | To | to | PART | _ | 2 ask | mark |
| 2 | ask | ask | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 dad | nmod:poss |
| 4 | dad | dad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 ask | obj |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 dance | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 dance | det |
| 7 | dance | dance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 ask | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | to-infinitive | her dad | for a dance | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent dad=Recipient |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
To see where she lived
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 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 5 lived | advmod |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 lived | nsubj |
| 5 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 see | advcl |
| # | 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 | live | past | she | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 3
To take her back to the ball
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | To | to | PART | _ | 2 take | mark |
| 2 | take | take | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 back | nmod:poss |
| 4 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 take | obj |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 ball | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 ball | det |
| 7 | ball | ball | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 take | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | to-infinitive | her back | the ball | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent back=Theme to ball=Destination |
Option 4
To give back her shoes
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | To | to | PART | _ | 2 give | mark |
| 2 | give | give | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | back | back | ADV | _ | 2 give | advmod |
| 4 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 shoes | nmod:poss |
| 5 | shoes | shoe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 give | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give back | to-infinitive | her shoes | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shoe=Theme |
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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