Test 11 · ★ · Fairy Tales, Prince Souci, part 49: the king is robbed in…

Did the king know the old lady was the fairy or what?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: king, old lady · What happens: know, be · To what, where: fairy · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 1660 «Fairy Tales, Prince Souci, part 49: the king is robbed in the forest and made to carry a bundle» 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=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 know	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=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 lady	det
6	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 lady	amod
7	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 fairy	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 fairy	cop
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 fairy	det
10	fairy	fairy	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 know	ccomp
11	or	or	CCONJ	_	12 what	cc
12	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 fairy	conj
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 know	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	know	past · do-support	the king						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	is a	past	the old lady	the fairy					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

Yeah, he clocked it straight

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 clocked	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 clocked	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 clocked	nsubj
4	clocked	clock	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 clocked	obj
6	straight	straight	ADV	_	4 clocked	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	clock	past	he	it				straight property	vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme it=Value

Option 2

Yeah, he clocked it at once but kept quiet about it all the way home

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 clocked	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 clocked	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 clocked	nsubj
4	clocked	clock	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 clocked	obj
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 once	case
7	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	4 clocked	obl
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	9 kept	cc
9	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 clocked	conj
10	quiet	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 kept	xcomp
11	about	about	ADP	_	12 it	case
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 kept	obl
13	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	15 way	det:predet
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 way	det
15	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 kept	obl:unmarked
16	home	home	ADV	_	15 way	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	clock	past	he	it					vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP PP.value»: agent=Agent it=Theme at once=Value
2	keep	past	he not said here	all way				about it; quiet property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent about it=Location

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Nah, he never clocked it at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 clocked	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 clocked	nsubj
4	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	5 clocked	advmod
5	clocked	clock	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 clocked	obj
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 all	case
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 clocked	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not clock	past	he	it		all			vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP PP.value»: agent=Agent it=Theme at all=Value

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Nah, he never spotted her

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 spotted	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 spotted	nsubj
4	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	5 spotted	advmod
5	spotted	spot	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 spotted	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not spot	past	he		her = she				vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Destination

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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