Test 10 · ★ · Lang's Fairy Book, The White Slipper, part 62: the king lo…

okay, what did the king say about the youth?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: king · What happens: do, say · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1196 «Lang's Fairy Book, The White Slipper, part 62: the king loses his slipper and a youth offers a cure» 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	okay	okay	INTJ	_	4 did	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 okay	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	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 say	nsubj
7	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 did	parataxis
8	about	about	ADP	_	10 youth	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 youth	det
10	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 say	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past							vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert	present	the king					about the youth	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

he came from kindness, so no harm

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	2 came	nsubj
2	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	from	from	ADP	_	4 kindness	case
4	kindness	kindness	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 came	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 harm	punct
6	so	so	ADV	_	8 harm	advmod
7	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	8 harm	det
8	harm	harm	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 came	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	he	no harm		kindness			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from kindness=Initial_Location

Option 2

he's a liar

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	4 liar	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 liar	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 liar	det
4	liar	liar	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	he	a liar					tree rules

Option 3

he tried to sneak in for money

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	2 tried	nsubj
2	tried	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 sneak	mark
4	sneak	sneak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 tried	xcomp
5	in	in	ADP	_	4 sneak	compound:prt
6	for	for	ADP	_	7 money	case
7	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sneak	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	try	past	he						vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	sneak in not said to happen	to-infinitive	he not said here					for money	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

he was a thief

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	4 thief	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 thief	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 thief	det
4	thief	thief	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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