Test 9 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 99…

be real, what did the wife wish for?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · What happens: be

This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 888 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 99: the stork carries a baby to the Viking's wife, but the child turns into a frog at night» 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	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	2 real	cop
2	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 wish	amod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 wish	punct
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	8 wish	nsubj
5	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 wish	aux
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 wish	det
7	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 wish	compound
8	wish	wish	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	for	for	ADP	_	8 wish	case
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 wish	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	infinitive						real property	tree rules

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

a tiny baby to raise as her own

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 baby	det
2	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 baby	amod
3	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 raise	mark
5	raise	raise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 baby	acl
6	as	as	ADP	_	8 own	case
7	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 own	nmod:poss
8	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 raise	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	raise	to-infinitive						as her own	vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 2

a child to hold

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 child	det
2	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 hold	mark
4	hold	hold	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 child	acl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hold	to-infinitive							vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

a little one to hold in the castle

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 one	det
2	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 one	amod
3	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 hold	mark
5	hold	hold	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 one	acl
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 castle	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 castle	det
8	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 hold	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hold	to-infinitive				the castle			vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in castle=Location

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

a little one

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 one	det
2	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 one	amod
3	one	one	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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