Test 10 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Travelling Companion: the magi…

so the princess said "You're my master now", yeah?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: princess, You · What happens: say, be · To what, where: master · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1010 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Travelling Companion: the magician's head, the swan, and the farewell» 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	so	so	ADV	_	4 said	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 princess	det
3	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 master	punct
6	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 master	nsubj
7	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 master	cop
8	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 master	nmod:poss
9	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 said	ccomp
10	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	9 master	advmod
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 master	punct
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 said	punct
13	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 said	discourse
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 said	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the princess						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is a in a quote	present	You	my master			now		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

yes, she told the king

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 told	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yes	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 told	nsubj
4	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 king	det
6	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 told	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	she		the king				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent king=Recipient

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

yeah, she said it to John

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 said	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 said	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 said	obj
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 John	case
7	John	John	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 said	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	she	it	John				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Topic to john=Recipient

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

yeah, she said it to John after he had guessed her thought right in the great hall

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 said	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 said	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 said	obj
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 John	case
7	John	John	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 said	obl
8	after	after	SCONJ	_	11 guessed	mark
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 guessed	nsubj
10	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 guessed	aux
11	guessed	guess	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	13 thought	advcl
12	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 guessed	obj
13	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 said	parataxis
14	right	right	ADV	_	13 thought	advmod
15	in	in	ADP	_	18 hall	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 hall	det
17	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 hall	amod
18	hall	hall	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 thought	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	she	it	John			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Topic to john=Recipient
2	guess	past · perfect	John	her = she				vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme
3	think speech: other	past				the great hall	right property	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

yeah, she said it to John at the end of the test, when he had guessed the secret thought

The tree, 19 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 said	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 said	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 said	obj
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 John	case
7	John	John	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 said	obl
8	at	at	ADP	_	10 end	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 end	det
10	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 said	obl
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 test	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 test	det
13	test	test	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 end	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 guessed	punct
15	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	18 guessed	advmod
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 guessed	nsubj
17	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 guessed	aux
18	guessed	guess	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 said	conj
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 thought	det
20	secret	secret	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 thought	amod
21	thought	thought	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 guessed	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	she	it	John		at the end of the test		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Topic to john=Recipient
2	guess	past · perfect	John	the secret thought					vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thought=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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