Test 8 · ★ · Fairy Book, The Red Knight: the prince proves his deeds an…

How did the king figure out what went down?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: king · What happens: figure out, go down

This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 1230 «Fairy Book, The Red Knight: the prince proves his deeds and the wicked knight is hanged» 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	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	5 figure	advmod
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 figure	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 king	det
4	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 figure	nsubj
5	figure	figure	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	out	out	ADP	_	5 figure	compound:prt
7	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	8 went	nsubj
8	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 figure	ccomp
9	down	down	ADV	_	8 went	advmod
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 figure	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	figure out	past · do-support	the king						vn discover-84-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	go down	past						down property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

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

The princess spilled the whole tea

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 princess	det
2	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 spilled	nsubj
3	spilled	spill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 tea	det
5	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 tea	amod
6	tea	tea	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 spilled	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spill	past	the princess	the whole tea					vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location tea=Theme

Option 2

The mermaid texted him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 mermaid	det
2	mermaid	mermaid	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 texted	nsubj
3	texted	text	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 texted	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	text	past	the mermaid	him = he					tree rules

Option 3

A bee buzzed in his ear

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 bee	det
2	bee	bee	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	buzzed	buzz	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 bee	acl
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 ear	case
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 ear	nmod:poss
6	ear	ear	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 buzzed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	buzz	participle		a bee not said here		bee's ear			vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in ear=Location

Option 4

The Red Knight confessed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Knight	det
2	Red	Red	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Knight	flat
3	Knight	Knight	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 confessed	nsubj
4	confessed	confess	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	confess	past	the Red Knight						vn confess-37.10 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent

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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