Test 8 · ★ · Wonder Tales from Many Lands, The Story of Ciccu, part 61:…

Did the king come round to gawk at the house?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: king · What happens: come round, gawk

This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 1672 «Wonder Tales from Many Lands, The Story of Ciccu, part 61: the princess begs Ciccu's purse for a copy» 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=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 king	aux
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 king	det
3	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 come	nsubj
4	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	round	round	ADV	_	4 come	advmod
6	to	to	PART	_	7 gawk	mark
7	gawk	gawk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 come	advcl
8	at	at	ADP	_	10 house	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 house	det
10	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 gawk	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 come	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come round	present	the king					round property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	gawk	to-infinitive	the king not said here					at the house	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at house=Theme

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

nah, he sent a message asking to see it another day

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 sent	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 sent	nsubj
4	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 message	det
6	message	message	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sent	obj
7	asking	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 message	acl
8	to	to	PART	_	9 see	mark
9	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 asking	xcomp
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 see	obj
11	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	12 day	det
12	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 see	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	send	past	he	a message		vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent message=Theme
2	ask speech: ask	gerund	a message not said here			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	see not said to happen	to-infinitive	a message not said here	message	day	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus

Option 2

nah, he sent men

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 sent	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 sent	nsubj
4	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 sent	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	send	past	he	men					vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Theme

Option 3

yeah, he sent a messenger

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 sent	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 sent	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 sent	nsubj
4	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 messenger	det
6	messenger	messenger	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sent	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	send	past	he	a messenger					vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent messenger=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

yeah, he came to see it himself

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 came	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 came	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 came	nsubj
4	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 see	mark
6	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 came	advcl
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 see	obj
8	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	6 see	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	he						vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	see	to-infinitive	he not said here	it					tree rules

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