Test 8 · ★ · Fairy Tales (pg503), Prince Darling, part 66: a cursed pri…

Was the Prince gutted when he heard Suliman's speech?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: Prince, he, Suliman · What happens: be, hear, speak · To what, where: speech · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 1479 «Fairy Tales (pg503), Prince Darling, part 66: a cursed prince becomes a monster and then a little dog» 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 gutted	cop
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Prince	det
3	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 gutted	nsubj
4	gutted	gut	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	7 heard	advmod
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 heard	nsubj
7	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 gutted	advcl
8	Suliman	Suliman	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 speech	nmod:poss
9	's	's	PART	_	8 Suliman	case
10	speech	speech	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 heard	obj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 gutted	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	the Prince		gut property	tree rules
2	hear	past	he	Suliman's speech		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer speech=Stimulus
3	speak		Suliman			nom speech «communication transitive»: poss=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

Yeah, he felt bad at first but then soon forgot all about it and went hunting

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 felt	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 felt	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 felt	nsubj
4	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 felt	xcomp
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 first	case
7	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	4 felt	obl
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	11 forgot	cc
9	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	11 forgot	advmod
10	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	11 forgot	advmod
11	forgot	forget	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 felt	conj
12	all	all	ADV	_	11 forgot	advmod
13	about	about	ADP	_	14 it	case
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 forgot	obl
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 went	cc
16	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 forgot	conj
17	hunting	hunting	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 went	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	feel	past	he			bad property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
2	forget	past	he not said here		then	about it; all, soon property	tree rules
3	go	past	he not said here	hunting			vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location hunting=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, it made him feel really bad

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 made	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 made	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 made	nsubj
4	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 made	obj
6	feel	feel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 made	xcomp
7	really	really	ADV	_	8 bad	advmod
8	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 feel	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	past	it	him = he					tree rules
2	feel	infinitive	him = he not said here					bad property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

Option 3

Nah, he laughed and called Suliman a liar and ordered his guards to arrest him

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 laughed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 laughed	nsubj
4	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 called	cc
6	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 laughed	conj
7	Suliman	Suliman	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 called	obj
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 liar	det
9	liar	liar	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 called	xcomp
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 ordered	cc
11	ordered	order	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 laughed	conj
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 guards	nmod:poss
13	guards	guard	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 ordered	obj
14	to	to	PART	_	15 arrest	mark
15	arrest	arrest	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 ordered	xcomp
16	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 arrest	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	laugh	past	he			vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	call	past	he not said here		Suliman	vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent suliman=Recipient
3	order	past	he not said here	Suliman's guards		vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent guard=Recipient clause=Topic
4	arrest not said to happen	to-infinitive	Suliman's guards not said here	Suliman		vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient

Option 4

Nah, he just laughed at it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 laughed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 laughed	nsubj
4	just	just	ADV	_	5 laughed	advmod
5	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 it	case
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 laughed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	laugh	past	he			it			vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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