Test 12 · ★ · The Green Fairy Book, The Little Green Frog, part 13: Prin…

Was Saphir a proper clever prince, did he know loads?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Saphir · What happens: be, know · To what, where: Saphir, loads

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 1689 «The Green Fairy Book, The Little Green Frog, part 13: Prince Saphir sets out to find the magic bird that cured his father» 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	Was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 Saphir	cop
2	Saphir	Saphir	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 know	obl
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 prince	det
4	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 prince	amod
5	clever	clever	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 prince	amod
6	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Saphir	appos
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Saphir	punct
8	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 know	aux
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 know	nsubj
10	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
11	loads	load	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 know	obj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	10 know	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		Saphir					tree rules
2	know	past · do-support	Saphir	loads					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer load=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 · ✓ the right answer

He knew everything a prince should know

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 knew	nsubj
2	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	2 knew	obj
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 prince	det
5	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 know	nsubj
6	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 know	aux
7	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 knew	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	know	past	He	everything					tree rules
2	know	should	a prince						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

Option 2

He could read but knew little of war

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 read	nsubj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 read	aux
3	read	read	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	but	but	CCONJ	_	5 knew	cc
5	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 read	conj
6	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 war	case
7	of	of	ADP	_	6 little	fixed
8	war	war	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 knew	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	read	could	He						vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	know	past	He not said here					little war	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

Option 3

He knew very little

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 knew	nsubj
2	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	very	very	ADV	_	4 little	advmod
4	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 knew	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	know	past	He	little					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer little=Stimulus

Option 4

He knew all the courtly dances well

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 knew	nsubj
2	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 dances	det:predet
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 dances	det
5	courtly	courtly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 dances	amod
6	dances	dance	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 knew	obj
7	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	2 knew	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	know	past	He	all courtly dances				well property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer dance=Stimulus

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