Test 12 · ★ · The Brown Fairy Book, What the Rose did to the Cypress, pa…

Is the faqir gonna tell him everything?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: faqir · What happens: be, tell · To what, where: faqir, everything, him · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 1200 «The Brown Fairy Book, What the Rose did to the Cypress, part 1: a prince chases a deer, gets lost in the desert and meets a barefoot stranger who is a lost king» 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	Is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 faqir	cop
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 faqir	det
3	faqir	faqir	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	gonna	gonna	PART	_	5 tell	mark
5	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 faqir	acl
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 tell	iobj
7	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	5 tell	obj
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 faqir	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		the faqir					tree rules
2	tell speech: assert	infinitive	the faqir not said here	everything	him = he				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient everything=Topic

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

Only if the king asks him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	5 asks	advmod
2	if	if	SCONJ	_	5 asks	mark
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 king	det
4	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 asks	nsubj
5	asks	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 asks	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	present	the king		him = he				vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient

Option 2

Nah, he never tells anyone at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 tells	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 tells	nsubj
4	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	5 tells	advmod
5	tells	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	5 tells	obj
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 all	case
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 tells	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not tell speech: assert	present	he		anyone	all			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent anyone=Recipient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Only once the prince begs him hard

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	5 begs	advmod
2	once	once	SCONJ	_	5 begs	mark
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 prince	det
4	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 begs	nsubj
5	begs	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 begs	obj
7	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 begs	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	beg speech: request	present	the prince		him = he			hard property	vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent he=Recipient

Option 4

Maybe, not sure

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Maybe	maybe	ADV	_	4 sure	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 sure	punct
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 sure	advmod
4	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

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