Test 11 · ★ · Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Six Servants, part 32: the new he…
Bruv, what did the king say about the bond?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: king · What happens: do, say · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 1643 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Six Servants, part 32: the new helpers join the ship and the king's fleet is blinded by fog» 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 | Bruv | Bruv | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 did | vocative |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Bruv | punct |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 did | nsubj |
| 4 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 king | det |
| 6 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 say | nsubj |
| 7 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 did | parataxis |
| 8 | about | about | ADP | _ | 10 bond | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 bond | det |
| 10 | bond | bond | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 say | obl |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | Bruv vocative | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | present | the king | about the bond | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=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 · ✓ the right answer
That it was not in the bond, the youth said
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 bond | nsubj |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 bond | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 bond | cop |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 bond | advmod |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 bond | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 bond | det |
| 7 | bond | bond | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 said | ccomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 bond | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 youth | det |
| 10 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 said | nsubj |
| 11 | said | say | 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 | not is | past | That | the bond | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the youth | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
Option 2
That he owed nothing, the king said
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 owed | nsubj |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 owed | nsubj |
| 3 | owed | owe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 said | ccomp |
| 4 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 3 owed | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 owed | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 king | det |
| 7 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | nsubj |
| 8 | said | say | 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 | owe | past | That | nothing | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent nothing=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the king | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
Option 3
That the bond was never signed by the king
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | That | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 bond | det |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 bond | det |
| 3 | bond | bond | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 signed | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 signed | aux:pass |
| 5 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 6 signed | advmod |
| 6 | signed | sign | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | by | by | ADP | _ | 9 king | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 king | det |
| 9 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 signed | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not sign | past · passive | the king | that bond | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent subject=Destination |
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice
That it was not in the bond, the youth said, so the king had to honour the first promise
The tree, 19 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 bond | nsubj |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 bond | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 bond | cop |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 bond | advmod |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 bond | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 bond | det |
| 7 | bond | bond | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 said | ccomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 bond | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 youth | det |
| 10 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 said | nsubj |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 had | punct |
| 13 | so | so | ADV | _ | 16 had | advmod |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 king | det |
| 15 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 had | nsubj |
| 16 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 said | ccomp |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 honour | mark |
| 18 | honour | honour | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 had | xcomp |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 promise | det |
| 20 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 21 promise | amod |
| 21 | promise | promise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 honour | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | past | That | the bond | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the youth | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | have | past | the king | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | honour | to-infinitive | the king not said here | the first promise | tree rules |
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