Test 8 · ★ · Fairy Book, The Witch and Her Servants, part 37: three son…

what did the King say when the duck was going off, mate?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: King, duck · What happens: do, say, go off · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 1713 «Fairy Book, The Witch and Her Servants, part 37: three sons guard the magic fruit» 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 King	det
4	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 say	nsubj
5	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 did	parataxis
6	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	10 going	advmod
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 duck	det
8	duck	duck	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 going	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 going	aux
10	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 say	ccomp
11	off	off	ADP	_	10 going	compound:prt
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 mate	punct
13	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 going	vocative
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	do	past			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert	present	the King		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	go off	past · progressive	the duck	mate vocative	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V ADV»: agent=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

Wife, come quickly, what a wonder is this I see

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 come	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Wife	punct
3	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	3 come	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 see	punct
6	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	12 see	obj
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 wonder	det
8	wonder	wonder	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 see	nsubj
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 see	cop
10	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	12 see	nsubj
11	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 see	nsubj
12	see	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 come	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	infinitive	Wife					quickly property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	present	a wonder					see property	tree rules

Option 2

Wife, look at the wonder here

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 look	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Wife	punct
3	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	at	at	ADP	_	6 wonder	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 wonder	det
6	wonder	wonder	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 look	obl
7	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 look	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	infinitive	Wife			here		at the wonder	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at wonder=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Wife, what a wonder is this

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 what	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Wife	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 wonder	det
5	wonder	wonder	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 what	nsubj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 what	cop
7	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 what	nsubj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Wife						tree rules

Option 4

Wife, what a wonder is it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 what	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Wife	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 wonder	det
5	wonder	wonder	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 what	nsubj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 what	cop
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 what	nsubj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Wife						tree rules

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