Test 15 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Travelling Companion: the magi…

mate did the old king like the new wedding plan?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: mate · What happens: do · To what, where: old king

This is test 15 · ★ 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	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 did	nsubj
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 king	det
4	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 king	amod
5	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 did	obj
6	like	like	ADP	_	10 plan	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 plan	det
8	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 plan	amod
9	wedding	wedding	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 plan	compound
10	plan	plan	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 did	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	mate	the old king				like the new wedding plan	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent king=Eventuality

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

yeah, he said it was just fine by him

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	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc 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=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 fine	expl
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 fine	cop
7	just	just	ADV	_	8 fine	advmod
8	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 said	ccomp
9	by	by	ADP	_	10 him	case
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 fine	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	he						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is	past						by him = he; fine property	tree rules

Option 2

yeah, he was over the moon and said it was just what he had always wished for his son

The tree, 19 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	9 said	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 moon	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 moon	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 moon	cop
5	over	over	ADP	_	7 moon	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 moon	det
7	moon	moon	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 yeah	vocative
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 said	cc
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 what	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 what	cop
12	just	just	ADV	_	13 what	advmod
13	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	9 said	obj
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 wished	nsubj
15	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 wished	aux
16	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	17 wished	advmod
17	wished	wish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	13 what	acl:relcl
18	for	for	ADP	_	20 son	case
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 son	nmod:poss
20	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 wished	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	he	the moon		tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	is a	past	moon			tree rules
4	wish	past · perfect	he		for his son; always property	vn long-32.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Pivot for son=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

yeah, he said it was what he wanted

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	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc 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=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 what	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 what	cop
7	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 said	ccomp
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 wanted	nsubj
9	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 what	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	he	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is a	past	it	tree rules
3	want	past	he	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot

Option 4

nope, he said it was too soon for it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nope	nope	INTJ	_	4 said	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nope	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc 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=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 soon	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 soon	cop
7	too	too	ADV	_	8 soon	advmod
8	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 said	ccomp
9	for	for	ADP	_	10 it	case
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 said	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	he					for it	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	it					soon property	tree rules

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