Test 7 · ★ · Grimm's Fairy Tales, Lily and the Lion, part 45: Lily trad…
Bro, why'd the princess give the prince a sleeping draught?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · What happens: give, sleep · To what, where: princess
This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 769 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, Lily and the Lion, part 45: Lily trades her golden dress for one night, but the prince sleeps through it» 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 | Bro | bro | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 give | vocative |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Bro | punct |
| 3 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 give | advmod |
| 4 | 'd | 'd | PUNCT | _ | 6 princess | punct |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 princess | det |
| 6 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 give | obl |
| 7 | give | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 prince | det |
| 9 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 give | obj |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 draught | det |
| 11 | sleeping | sleep | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 draught | amod |
| 12 | draught | draught | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 give | obj |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 give | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | present | the princess | Bro vocative | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent prince=Recipient draught=Theme | ||||
| 2 | sleep | gerund | vn snooze-40.4-1 «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
to hide
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | to | to | PART | _ | 2 hide | mark |
| 2 | hide | hide | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hide | to-infinitive | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
so he wouldn't see her
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | so | so | ADV | _ | 5 see | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 see | nsubj |
| 3 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 see | aux |
| 4 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 see | advmod |
| 5 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 see | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not see | would | he | her = she | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus |
Option 3
to sleep
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | to | to | PART | _ | 2 sleep | mark |
| 2 | sleep | sleep | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sleep | to-infinitive | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 4
so he couldn't hear her
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | so | so | ADV | _ | 5 hear | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 hear | nsubj |
| 3 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 hear | aux |
| 4 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 hear | advmod |
| 5 | hear | hear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 hear | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not hear | could | he | her = she | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus |
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