Test 9 · ★ · Fairy Tales, Prince Souci, part 49: the king is robbed in…
What did the courtiers reckon about the king's trip?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: courtiers, king · What happens: do, reckon, trip
This is test 9 · ★ 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 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 2 did | nsubj |
| 2 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 courtiers | det |
| 4 | courtiers | courtier | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 reckon | nsubj |
| 5 | reckon | reckon | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 did | parataxis |
| 6 | about | about | ADP | _ | 10 trip | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 king | det |
| 8 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 trip | nmod:poss |
| 9 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 8 king | case |
| 10 | trip | trip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 reckon | obl |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | reckon | present | the courtiers | about the king's trip | vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | trip | the king | nom trip «act 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
They thought it was daft
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 thought | nsubj |
| 2 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 daft | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 daft | cop |
| 5 | daft | daft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 thought | ccomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past | They | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is | past | it | daft property | tree rules |
Option 2
They reckoned it was mad
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 reckoned | nsubj |
| 2 | reckoned | reckon | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 mad | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 mad | cop |
| 5 | mad | mad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 reckoned | ccomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reckon | past | They | vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is | past | it | mad property | tree rules |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
They thought it was a right laugh
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 thought | nsubj |
| 2 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 laugh | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 laugh | cop |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 laugh | det |
| 6 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 laugh | amod |
| 7 | laugh | laugh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 thought | ccomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past | They | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is a | past | it | a right laugh | tree rules |
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice
They reckoned it was a right laugh, the king getting lost and losing his sword
The tree, 15 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 reckoned | nsubj |
| 2 | reckoned | reckon | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 laugh | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 laugh | cop |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 laugh | det |
| 6 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 laugh | amod |
| 7 | laugh | laugh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 reckoned | ccomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 king | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 king | det |
| 10 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 laugh | appos |
| 11 | getting | get | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 king | acl |
| 12 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 getting | xcomp |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 losing | cc |
| 14 | losing | lose | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 getting | conj |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 sword | nmod:poss |
| 16 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 losing | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reckon | past | They | vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is a | past | it | a right laugh | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | get | gerund | the king not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | lose | participle | the king not said here | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | lose | gerund | the king not said here | king's sword | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sword=Eventuality |
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