Test 11 · ★ · Fairy Tales, The Princess in the Chest, part 10: the king…

Who was the merry young smith then, the hero?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be · To what, where: merry young smith

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 1621 «Fairy Tales, The Princess in the Chest, part 10: the king breaks his word, the princess dies, and the sentinels vanish one by one» 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	Who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 smith	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 smith	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 smith	det
4	merry	merry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 smith	amod
5	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 smith	amod
6	smith	smith	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 smith	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 hero	punct
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 hero	det
10	hero	hero	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 smith	conj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 smith	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the merry young smith and the hero			then		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

The guard who fell asleep first

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 guard	det
2	guard	guard	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 fell	nsubj
4	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 guard	acl:relcl
5	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 fell	xcomp
6	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	4 fell	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall	past	the guard					asleep, first property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

The one who turns up at the very end, and who is the real hero of the whole tale told here

The tree, 21 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 one	det
2	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 turns	nsubj
4	turns	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 one	acl:relcl
5	up	up	ADP	_	4 turns	compound:prt
6	at	at	ADP	_	9 end	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 end	det
8	very	very	ADV	_	9 end	advmod
9	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 turns	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 hero	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 hero	cc
12	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 hero	nsubj
13	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 hero	cop
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 hero	det
15	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 hero	amod
16	hero	hero	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 one	appos
17	of	of	ADP	_	20 tale	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 tale	det
19	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 tale	amod
20	tale	tale	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 hero	nmod
21	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 tale	acl
22	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	21 told	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn up	present	the one			at the end		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at end=Location
2	is a	present	the one	the real hero			of the whole tale	tree rules
3	tell speech: assert	participle		the whole tale not said here	here			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

The one who turns up at the very end of the story, after everyone has given up

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 one	det
2	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 given	nsubj:pass
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 turns	nsubj
4	turns	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 one	acl:relcl
5	up	up	ADP	_	4 turns	compound:prt
6	at	at	ADP	_	9 end	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 end	det
8	very	very	ADV	_	9 end	advmod
9	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 turns	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 story	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 story	det
12	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 end	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 given	punct
14	after	after	SCONJ	_	17 given	mark
15	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	17 given	nsubj
16	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 given	aux
17	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
18	up	up	ADP	_	17 given	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn up	present	the one				at the end of the story		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at end=Location
2	give up	present · perfect · passive		the one					vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Source

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

The one who turns up at the very end

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 one	det
2	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 turns	nsubj
4	turns	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 one	acl:relcl
5	up	up	ADP	_	4 turns	compound:prt
6	at	at	ADP	_	9 end	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 end	det
8	very	very	ADV	_	9 end	advmod
9	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 turns	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn up	present	the one				at the end		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at end=Location

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