Test 12 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Swineherd: the prince's pot, t…

why did the swineherd say no to the ladies' kisses?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: swineherd, ladies · What happens: say, kiss · To what, where: no, kisses · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 997 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Swineherd: the prince's pot, the rattle and the kisses» 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 say	advmod
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 say	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 swineherd	det
4	swineherd	swineherd	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 say	nsubj
5	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	5 say	obj
7	to	to	ADP	_	11 kisses	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 ladies	det
9	ladies	lady	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 kisses	nmod:poss
10	'	's	PART	_	9 ladies	case
11	kisses	kiss	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 say	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 say	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past · do-support	the swineherd	no	the ladies's kisses				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent no=Topic to kiss=Recipient
2	kiss		the ladies						nom kiss «act transitive»: poss=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 · ← Mova's choice

he wanted the ladies to leave

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 wanted	nsubj
2	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 ladies	det
4	ladies	lady	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 wanted	obj
5	to	to	PART	_	6 leave	mark
6	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 wanted	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	he	the ladies					tree rules
2	leave not said to happen	to-infinitive	the ladies not said here						vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

he wanted a hundred gold coins and the princess too

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 wanted	nsubj
2	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 hundred	det
4	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 coins	nummod
5	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 coins	compound
6	coins	coin	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 wanted	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 princess	cc
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 princess	det
9	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 coins	conj
10	too	too	ADV	_	2 wanted	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	he	hundred gold coins and the princess					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot coin=Theme

Option 3

he only wanted to kiss the princess herself and nobody else

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 wanted	nsubj
2	only	only	ADV	_	3 wanted	advmod
3	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 kiss	mark
5	kiss	kiss	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 wanted	xcomp
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 princess	det
7	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 kiss	obj
8	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	5 kiss	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 nobody	cc
10	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	3 wanted	conj
11	else	else	ADV	_	10 nobody	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	he						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	kiss not said to happen	to-infinitive	he not said here	the princess				princess obl	vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent princess=Co-Agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

he wanted the princess herself

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 wanted	nsubj
2	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 princess	det
4	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 wanted	obj
5	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	2 wanted	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	he	the princess				princess obl	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot princess=Theme

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