Test 9 · ★ · Fairy Book, The Old Woman and the Prince: a condemned yout…

Did the king know the young man was his son before?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: king, young man · What happens: know, be · To what, where: son · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 1280 «Fairy Book, The Old Woman and the Prince: a condemned youth wins a strange marriage and proves he is the king's true son» 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	Did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 king	aux
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 king	det
3	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 know	nsubj
4	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 man	det
6	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 man	amod
7	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 son	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 son	cop
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 son	nmod:poss
10	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 know	ccomp
11	before	before	SCONJ	_	4 know	advmod
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 know	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	know	present	the king						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	is a	past	the young man	man's son					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

Nah, he had no clue at all until the young man showed him the cross and rings in front of the whole court

The tree, 23 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 had	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 had	nsubj
4	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	6 clue	det
6	clue	clue	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 had	obj
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 all	case
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 clue	nmod
9	until	until	SCONJ	_	13 showed	mark
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 man	det
11	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 man	amod
12	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 showed	nsubj
13	showed	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 had	advcl
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 showed	iobj
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 cross	det
16	cross	cross	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 showed	obj
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 rings	cc
18	rings	ring	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 cross	conj
19	in	in	ADP	_	20 front	case
20	front	front	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 cross	nmod
21	of	of	ADP	_	24 court	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 court	det
23	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 court	amod
24	court	court	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 front	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	he	no clue		all			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clue=Patient
2	show	past	the young man	the cross and rings	him = he	front of the whole court			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient cross=Topic

Option 2

Yeah, he guessed it when she died

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 guessed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 guessed	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 guessed	nsubj
4	guessed	guess	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 guessed	obj
6	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	8 died	advmod
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 died	nsubj
8	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 guessed	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	guess	past	he	it					vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	die	past	she						vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

Option 3

Nah, not until the rings were shown him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	8 shown	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 shown	punct
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 shown	advmod
4	until	until	SCONJ	_	8 shown	mark
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 rings	det
6	rings	ring	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 shown	nsubj:pass
7	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 shown	aux:pass
8	shown	show	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 shown	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not show	past · passive		the rings					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient he=Topic

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Nah, he had no clue till the cross and rings

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 had	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 had	nsubj
4	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	6 clue	det
6	clue	clue	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 had	obj
7	till	till	ADP	_	9 cross	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 cross	det
9	cross	cross	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 had	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 rings	cc
11	rings	ring	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 cross	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	he	no clue			till the cross and rings		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clue=Patient

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