Test 12 · ★ · Lang Fairy Tales, The Knights of the Fish, part 1: a magic…

was the cobbler cool with obeying the fish?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: cobbler · What happens: be, obey · To what, where: fish

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 1262 «Lang Fairy Tales, The Knights of the Fish, part 1: a magic fish gives a poor cobbler two sons who go looking for adventure» 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	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 cool	cop
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 cobbler	det
3	cobbler	cobbler	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 cool	nsubj
4	cool	cool	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	with	with	SCONJ	_	6 obeying	mark
6	obeying	obey	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 cool	advcl
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 fish	det
8	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 obeying	obj
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 cool	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the cobbler					cool property	tree rules
2	obey	gerund	the cobbler not said here	the fish					vn abide_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fish=Theme

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

yep, he thought it was wise to obey

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yep	yep	INTJ	_	4 thought	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yep	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 thought	nsubj
4	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 wise	expl
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 wise	cop
7	wise	wise	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 thought	ccomp
8	to	to	PART	_	9 obey	mark
9	obey	obey	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 wise	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	he		vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	past		wise property	tree rules
3	obey	to-infinitive			vn abide_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 2

yes, but he kept some for himself

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 kept	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 kept	punct
3	but	but	CCONJ	_	5 kept	cc
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 kept	nsubj
5	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	5 kept	obj
7	for	for	ADP	_	8 himself	case
8	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	5 kept	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	past	he	some				for himself = he	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent some=Theme

Option 3

yep, because the fish had spoken, he thought it was wise to obey every word it said

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yep	yep	INTJ	_	10 thought	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yep	punct
3	because	because	SCONJ	_	7 spoken	mark
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 fish	det
5	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 spoken	nsubj:pass
6	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 spoken	aux
7	spoken	speak	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 thought	advcl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 spoken	punct
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 thought	nsubj
10	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 wise	expl
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 wise	cop
13	wise	wise	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 thought	ccomp
14	to	to	PART	_	15 obey	mark
15	obey	obey	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 wise	csubj
16	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	17 word	det
17	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 obey	obj
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 said	nsubj
19	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 word	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	speak speech: other	past · perfect · passive		the fish		tree rules
2	think speech: other	past	fish			vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is	past			wise property	tree rules
4	obey	to-infinitive		every word		vn abide_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Theme
5	say speech: assert	past	word	every word not said here		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent word=Topic

Option 4

nah, he thought it was a trick

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 thought	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 thought	nsubj
4	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 trick	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 trick	cop
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 trick	det
8	trick	trick	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 thought	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	he						vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is a	past	it	a trick					tree rules

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