Test 7 · ★ · Fairy Book, The Prince and His Dog, part 41: the prince cl…

What did the prince tell everyone his dad did, like, for real?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: prince, dad · What happens: tell, do · To what, where: everyone · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 1240 «Fairy Book, The Prince and His Dog, part 41: the prince climbs to the princess's window» 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 tell	obj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 tell	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 prince	det
4	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 tell	nsubj
5	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	5 tell	iobj
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 dad	nmod:poss
8	dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 did	nsubj
9	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 tell	ccomp
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 like	punct
11	like	like	INTJ	_	5 tell	discourse
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 real	punct
13	for	for	ADP	_	14 real	case
14	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 tell	parataxis
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 tell	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past · do-support	the prince		everyone				tree rules
2	do	past	prince's dad						vn act-114-1 «NP V»: 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

Looked after horses for the king, and boasted of it loudly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	after	after	ADP	_	3 horses	case
3	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Looked	obl
4	for	for	ADP	_	6 king	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 king	det
6	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Looked	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 boasted	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 boasted	cc
9	boasted	boast	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Looked	conj
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 it	case
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 boasted	obl
12	loudly	loudly	ADV	_	9 boasted	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	past					after horses	for the king	vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for king=Theme
2	boast speech: other	participle						of it; loudly property	vn complain-37.8 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

Kept the royal stables in order

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 stables	det
3	royal	royal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 stables	amod
4	stables	stable	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Kept	obj
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 order	case
6	order	order	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Kept	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	past		the royal stables		order			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent stable=Theme in order=Location

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Looked after horses for the king

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	after	after	ADP	_	3 horses	case
3	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Looked	obl
4	for	for	ADP	_	6 king	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 king	det
6	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Looked	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	past					after horses	for the king	vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for king=Theme

Option 4

Looked after horses for the king, the richest man in the land

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	after	after	ADP	_	3 horses	case
3	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Looked	obl
4	for	for	ADP	_	6 king	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 king	det
6	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Looked	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 man	punct
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 man	det
9	richest	rich	ADJ	Degree=Sup	10 man	amod
10	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 king	conj
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 land	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 land	det
13	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 man	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	past					after horses	for the king and the richest man in the land	vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for king=Theme

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