Test 9 · ★ · Andrew Lang's fairy book, The Prince and the Mermaid, part…

Wicked, so the bee tells him he should be safe at home?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Wicked, bee · What happens: tell, be · To what, where: bee, home · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 1228 «Andrew Lang's fairy book, The Prince and the Mermaid, part 29: the prince runs from the mermaid and becomes a lion and a bear» 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	Wicked	wicked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 tells	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 tells	punct
3	so	so	ADV	_	6 tells	advmod
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 bee	det
5	bee	bee	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 tells	nsubj
6	tells	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 tells	iobj
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 safe	nsubj
9	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 safe	aux
10	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	11 safe	cop
11	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 tells	ccomp
12	at	at	ADP	_	13 home	case
13	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 safe	obl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 tells	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	present	Wicked		bee				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
2	is	should	bee			home		safe property	tree rules

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

Yeah, he should be off to school

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	8 school	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 school	nsubj
4	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 school	aux
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	8 school	cop
6	off	off	ADP	_	5 be	compound:prt
7	to	to	ADP	_	8 school	case
8	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	should	he					to school	tree rules

Option 2

Yeah, at his age he should be home with his mum and dad, safe and sound

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	12 mum	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 mum	punct
3	at	at	ADP	_	5 age	case
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 age	nmod:poss
5	age	age	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 mum	obl
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 mum	nsubj
7	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 mum	aux
8	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	12 mum	cop
9	home	home	ADV	_	12 mum	advmod
10	with	with	ADP	_	12 mum	case
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 mum	nmod:poss
12	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 dad	cc
14	dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 mum	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 safe	punct
16	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 mum	parataxis
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 sound	cc
18	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 safe	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	should	he				at his age	with his mum and dad; home property	tree rules

Option 3

Nah, at his age he should be out

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	9 out	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	at	at	ADP	_	5 age	case
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 age	nmod:poss
5	age	age	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 out	obl
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 out	nsubj
7	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 out	aux
8	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 out	cop
9	out	out	ADV	_	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	should	he				at his age	out property	tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, at his age he should be home

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 age	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 age	punct
3	at	at	ADP	_	5 age	case
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 age	nmod:poss
5	age	age	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 home	nsubj
7	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 home	aux
8	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 home	cop
9	home	home	ADV	_	5 age	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	should	he	his age not said here				home property	tree rules

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