Test 13 · ★ · Perrault's Tales, Puss in Boots, part 8: the Cat tricks th…

Lol, what did the King say the Marquis gave him?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: King, Marquis · What happens: do, say, give · To what, where: King · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 1083 «Perrault's Tales, Puss in Boots, part 8: the Cat tricks the King with game, a river rescue and a fine suit, then reaches the Ogre's castle» 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	Lol	lol	INTJ	_	4 did	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	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	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 say	nsubj
7	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 did	parataxis
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Marquis	det
9	Marquis	Marquis	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 gave	nsubj
10	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 say	ccomp
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 gave	iobj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	roles by
1	do	past			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert	present	the King		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	give	past	the Marquis	King	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme

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

Great pleasure at having met such a fine lord

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 pleasure	amod
2	pleasure	pleasure	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	at	at	SCONJ	_	5 met	mark
4	having	have	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 met	aux
5	met	meet	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 pleasure	acl:relcl
6	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	9 lord	det:predet
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 lord	det
8	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 lord	amod
9	lord	lord	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 met	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	meet	gerund · perfect	Great pleasure not said here	such fine lord					vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lord=Co-Agent

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Much delight

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 delight	amod
2	delight	delight	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Great pleasure

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 pleasure	amod
2	pleasure	pleasure	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4

Great happiness

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 happiness	amod
2	happiness	happiness	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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