Test 9 · ★ · Swedish Folk Tales, The Lindorm, part 1: a childless queen…

Ha, did the king know about the lindorm?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: king · What happens: do, know

This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 1664 «Swedish Folk Tales, The Lindorm, part 1: a childless queen eats magic onions and bears a serpent» 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	Ha	ha	INTJ	_	3 did	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Ha	punct
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 king	det
5	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 know	nsubj
6	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 did	parataxis
7	about	about	ADP	_	9 lindorm	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 lindorm	det
9	lindorm	lindorm	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 know	obl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 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	know	present	the king					about the lindorm	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer about lindorm=Stimulus

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 · ← Mova's choice

Yeah, the king knew all about it from the very start and had already planned to get rid of the lindorm

The tree, 21 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 knew	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 knew	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 king	det
4	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 knew	nsubj
5	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	all	all	ADV	_	8 it	advmod
7	about	about	ADP	_	8 it	case
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 knew	obl
9	from	from	ADP	_	12 start	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 start	det
11	very	very	ADV	_	12 start	advmod
12	start	start	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 knew	obl
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 planned	cc
14	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 planned	aux
15	already	already	ADV	_	16 planned	advmod
16	planned	plan	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 knew	conj
17	to	to	PART	_	18 get	mark
18	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 planned	advcl
19	rid	rid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 get	xcomp
20	of	of	ADP	_	22 lindorm	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 lindorm	det
22	lindorm	lindorm	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 rid	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	know	past	the king	the start	about it	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer about it=Stimulus
2	plan	past · perfect	the king not said here			vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent
3	get	to-infinitive	the king not said here		rid property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Nah, nobody knew except her

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 knew	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	4 knew	nsubj
4	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	except	except	ADP	_	6 her	case
6	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 knew	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	know	past	nobody					except her = she	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

Option 3

Nah, nobody knew except her and the old wise woman who lived in the forest and warned her about it

The tree, 20 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 knew	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	4 knew	nsubj
4	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	except	except	ADP	_	6 her	case
6	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 knew	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 warned	cc
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 woman	det
9	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 woman	amod
10	wise	wise	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 woman	amod
11	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 warned	nsubj
12	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 lived	nsubj
13	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 woman	acl:relcl
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 forest	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 forest	det
16	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 lived	obl
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 lived	cc
18	warned	warn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 knew	conj
19	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 warned	obj
20	about	about	ADP	_	21 it	case
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 warned	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	know	past	nobody			except her = she	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	live	past	the old wise woman		the forest		vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in forest=Location
3	warn speech: warn	past	the old wise woman	her = she		about forest	vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP PP.topic»: agent=Agent she=Recipient about it=Topic

Option 4

Yeah, he was told by the maid

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 told	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 told	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 told	aux:pass
5	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	by	by	ADP	_	8 maid	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 maid	det
8	maid	maid	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 told	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past · passive	the maid	he					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent subject=Recipient

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