Test 10 · ★ · Gutenberg 3454 tales, The Jogi's Punishment, part 6: the p…

Did the lady's dad, the king of Granada, know she was married?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · What happens: do, know, marry · To what, where: dad, Granada · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1281 «Gutenberg 3454 tales, The Jogi's Punishment, part 6: the prince learns his bride's secret, and the rajah's daughter flees a jogi's love» 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	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 lady	det
3	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 dad	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 lady	case
5	dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Did	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 king	punct
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 king	det
8	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 dad	appos
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 Granada	case
10	Granada	Granada	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 king	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 know	punct
12	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Did	parataxis
13	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 married	nsubj:pass
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 married	aux:pass
15	married	marry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 know	ccomp
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	roles by
1	do	past	the lady's dad	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dad=Eventuality
2	know	present		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	marry	past · passive	Granada	vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

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

Yeah, he knew

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 knew	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 knew	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 knew	nsubj
4	knew	know	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	know	past	he						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

Option 2

Yeah, he was told at once

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 told	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 told	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 told	aux:pass
5	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 once	case
7	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	5 told	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past · passive		he					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient

Option 3

Nah, they wanted to tell him, but the prince kept putting it off for weeks on end

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 wanted	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 wanted	nsubj
4	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 tell	mark
6	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 wanted	xcomp
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 tell	iobj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 kept	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	12 kept	cc
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 prince	det
11	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 kept	nsubj
12	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 wanted	conj
13	putting	put	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 kept	xcomp
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 putting	obj
15	off	off	ADP	_	13 putting	compound:prt
16	for	for	ADP	_	17 weeks	case
17	weeks	week	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 putting	obl
18	on	on	ADP	_	19 end	case
19	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 putting	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	roles by
1	want	past	they				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	tell speech: assert not said to happen	to-infinitive	they not said here		him = he		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
3	keep	past	the prince				tree rules
4	put off	gerund	the prince not said here	it		on end; week	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme on end=Destination

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Nah, they wanted to tell him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 wanted	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 wanted	nsubj
4	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 tell	mark
6	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 wanted	xcomp
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 tell	iobj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	they						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	tell speech: assert not said to happen	to-infinitive	they not said here		him = he				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient

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