Test 8 · ★ · Fairy Tales, Jack and the Magic Table: Jack takes three ma…

That chamberlain got well fooled, didn't he?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: chamberlain · What happens: get, fool, not do

This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 1167 «Fairy Tales, Jack and the Magic Table: Jack takes three magic gifts, tricks his way to the top, and wins the king's daughter» 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	That	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 chamberlain	det
2	chamberlain	chamberlain	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 got	nsubj
3	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	3 got	advmod
5	fooled	fool	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 got	xcomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 did	punct
7	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 got	conj
8	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 did	advmod
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 did	nsubj
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 got	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	get	past	that chamberlain	well property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	fool	participle	that chamberlain not said here		vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	not do	past	chamberlain		vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=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

Yeah, he knew about the trick.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 knew	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 knew	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 knew	nsubj
4	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	about	about	ADP	_	7 trick	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 trick	det
7	trick	trick	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 knew	obl
8	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 knew	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	know	past	he					about the trick	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer about trick=Stimulus

Option 2

Nah, he was sharp.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 sharp	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 sharp	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 sharp	cop
5	sharp	sharp	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 sharp	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	he					sharp property	tree rules

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Nah, he saw through the whole thing.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 saw	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 saw	nsubj
4	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	through	through	ADP	_	8 thing	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 thing	det
7	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 thing	amod
8	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 saw	obl
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 saw	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	past	he			the whole thing			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, he had no clue about the trick.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 had	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 had	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 had	nsubj
4	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	6 clue	det
6	clue	clue	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 had	obj
7	about	about	ADP	_	9 trick	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 trick	det
9	trick	trick	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 clue	nmod
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 had	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	he	no clue				about the trick	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clue=Patient

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