Test 7 · ★ · Yellow Fairy Book, The Bird of Truth, part 54: the twins r…

Be honest, did the nobles like the king's wedding plan?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, king · What happens: be, do, plan · To what, where: nobles

This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 1188 «Yellow Fairy Book, The Bird of Truth, part 54: the twins run off, reach a shut hut, and overhear swallows talking about a queen and a crystal cradle» 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	Be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	2 honest	cop
2	honest	honest	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 honest	conj
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 nobles	det
6	nobles	noble	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 did	obj
7	like	like	ADP	_	12 plan	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 king	det
9	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 plan	nmod:poss
10	's	's	PART	_	9 king	case
11	wedding	wedding	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 plan	compound
12	plan	plan	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 nobles	nmod
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 honest	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	imperative	you not said here		honest property	tree rules
2	do	past	you not said here	the nobles	like the king's wedding plan	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent noble=Eventuality
3	plan		the king			nom plan «cognition transitive»: poss=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 · ← Mova's choice

yes, they cheered it on

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 cheered	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yes	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 cheered	nsubj
4	cheered	cheer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 cheered	obj
6	on	on	ADP	_	4 cheered	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cheer on	past	they	it					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus it=Experiencer

Option 2

nah, they plotted in secret to stop the wedding at all costs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 plotted	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 plotted	nsubj
4	plotted	plot	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 secret	case
6	secret	secret	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 plotted	obl
7	to	to	PART	_	8 stop	mark
8	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 plotted	advcl
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 wedding	det
10	wedding	wedding	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 stop	obj
11	at	at	ADP	_	13 costs	case
12	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	13 costs	det
13	costs	cost	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 stop	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	plot	past	they			secret			vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in secret=Destination
2	stop	to-infinitive	they not said here	the wedding		all costs			vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality wedding=Eventuality

Option 3

yes, at first, but then they all turned against it later

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	10 turned	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 turned	punct
3	at	at	ADP	_	4 first	case
4	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	10 turned	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 turned	punct
6	but	but	CCONJ	_	10 turned	cc
7	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	10 turned	advmod
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 turned	nsubj
9	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 they	det
10	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	against	against	ADP	_	12 it	case
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 turned	obl
13	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	10 turned	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	past	they			it	then	late property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V PP.source PP.trajectory PP.destination»: agent=Theme at first=Source against it=Trajectory

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

nah, they tried to stop it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 tried	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 tried	nsubj
4	tried	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 stop	mark
6	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 tried	xcomp
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 stop	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	try	past	they						vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	stop not said to happen	to-infinitive	they not said here	it					vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality it=Eventuality

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