Test 6 · ★ · Fairy Tales, The White Doe, part 40: the prince wounds the…

Lol, the prince said he'd hunt her for a whole year, no way!

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: prince · What happens: say, hunt · To what, where: her · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 1174 «Fairy Tales, The White Doe, part 40: the prince wounds the doe, Eglantine claims her, and Becasigue finds Desiree» 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	_	5 said	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Lol	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 prince	det
4	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	nsubj
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 hunt	nsubj
7	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 hunt	aux
8	hunt	hunt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 said	ccomp
9	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 hunt	obj
10	for	for	ADP	_	13 year	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 year	det
12	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 year	amod
13	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 hunt	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 way	punct
15	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	16 way	det
16	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 hunt	obl
17	!	!	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the prince						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	hunt	would	prince	her = she			year	no way obl	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=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

No, he only promised to hunt the doe until nightfall and then left her alone

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	5 promised	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 promised	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 promised	nsubj
4	only	only	ADV	_	5 promised	advmod
5	promised	promise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 hunt	mark
7	hunt	hunt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 promised	xcomp
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 doe	det
9	doe	doe	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 hunt	obj
10	until	until	ADP	_	11 nightfall	case
11	nightfall	nightfall	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 hunt	obl
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 left	cc
13	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	14 left	advmod
14	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 promised	conj
15	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 left	obj
16	alone	alone	ADV	_	14 left	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	promise speech: promise	past	he				vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	hunt not said to happen	to-infinitive	he not said here	the doe	until nightfall		vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent doe=Theme
3	leave	past	he not said here	her = she	then	alone property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme

Option 2

He actually said that, but he later changed his mind completely

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 said	nsubj
2	actually	actually	ADV	_	3 said	advmod
3	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 changed	mark
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 changed	punct
6	but	but	CCONJ	_	9 changed	cc
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 changed	nsubj
8	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	9 changed	advmod
9	changed	change	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 said	ccomp
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 mind	nmod:poss
11	mind	mind	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 changed	obj
12	completely	completely	ADV	_	9 changed	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	He		actually property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	change	past	he	his mind	completely, late property	vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mind=Patient
3	mind		his = he			nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=agent

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

He actually said that

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 said	nsubj
2	actually	actually	ADV	_	3 said	advmod
3	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	3 said	nsubj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	He					actually property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

Option 4

He never said that

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 said	nsubj
2	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	3 said	advmod
3	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	3 said	nsubj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not say speech: assert	past	He						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

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