Test 8 · ★ · Lang Fairy Tales, The Knights of the Fish, part 1: a magic…

ok lol, what did the king say when the knight got back?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: king, knight · What happens: do, say, get back · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 8 · ★ 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	ok	ok	INTJ	_	5 did	discourse
2	lol	lol	INTJ	_	1 ok	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 did	punct
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 did	nsubj
5	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 king	det
7	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 say	nsubj
8	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 did	parataxis
9	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	12 got	advmod
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 knight	det
11	knight	knight	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 got	nsubj
12	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 say	ccomp
13	back	back	ADV	_	12 got	advmod
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	roles by
1	do	past		vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert	present	the king	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	get back	past	the knight	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

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

he knighted him and offered him half the kingdom and a feast

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 knighted	nsubj
2	knighted	knight	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 knighted	obj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 offered	cc
5	offered	offer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 knighted	conj
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 offered	iobj
7	half	half	DET	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind	9 kingdom	det:predet
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 kingdom	det
9	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 offered	obj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 feast	cc
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 feast	det
12	feast	feast	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 kingdom	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	knight	past	he	him = he					vn orphan-29.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
2	offer	past	he not said here	half kingdom and a feast	him = he				vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent he=Goal kingdom=Theme

Option 2

he made him a lord of the land

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 made	nsubj
2	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 made	obj
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 lord	det
5	lord	lord	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 made	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 land	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 land	det
8	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 lord	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	past	he	a lord of the land	him = he				vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset he=Beneficiary lord=Product

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

he gave the knight the princess

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 gave	nsubj
2	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 knight	det
4	knight	knight	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 gave	obj
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 princess	det
6	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 gave	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	past	he	the princess	the knight				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent knight=Recipient princess=Theme

Option 4

he promised him a large reward

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 promised	nsubj
2	promised	promise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 promised	iobj
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 reward	det
5	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 reward	amod
6	reward	reward	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 promised	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	promise speech: promise	past	he	a large reward	him = he				vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent he=Goal reward=Theme

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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