Test 8 · ★ · Fairy Tales from many lands, The Simpleton, the Simpleton…

Did the King just get proper scared of the Simpleton's army, mate?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: King · What happens: do, get

This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 1723 «Fairy Tales from many lands, The Simpleton, the Simpleton beats the King's impossible tasks and wins the Princess» 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	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 King	det
3	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 get	nsubj
4	just	just	ADV	_	5 get	advmod
5	get	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Did	ccomp
6	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 scared	amod
7	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 get	xcomp
8	of	of	ADP	_	12 army	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Simpleton	det
10	Simpleton	Simpleton	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 army	nmod:poss
11	's	's	PART	_	10 Simpleton	case
12	army	army	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 scared	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 mate	punct
14	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 army	conj
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past							tree rules
2	get	present	the King					scared property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

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

Yeah, he said he was powerless, and he gave the Simpleton a palace and gold

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 said	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 said	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 powerless	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 powerless	cop
7	powerless	powerless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 said	ccomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 gave	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 gave	cc
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 gave	nsubj
11	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 said	conj
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 Simpleton	det
13	Simpleton	Simpleton	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 gave	obj
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 palace	det
15	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 gave	obj
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 gold	cc
17	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 palace	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	he				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	he			powerless property	tree rules
3	give	past	he	a palace and gold	the Simpleton		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent simpleton=Recipient palace=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, he said he was powerless

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 said	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 said	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 powerless	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 powerless	cop
7	powerless	powerless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 said	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	he						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	he					powerless property	tree rules

Option 3

Nah, he just laughed loudly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 laughed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 laughed	nsubj
4	just	just	ADV	_	5 laughed	advmod
5	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	loudly	loudly	ADV	_	5 laughed	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	laugh	past	he					loudly property	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Yeah, he ran off to hide

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 ran	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 ran	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 ran	nsubj
4	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	off	off	ADP	_	4 ran	compound:prt
6	to	to	PART	_	7 hide	mark
7	hide	hide	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 ran	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run off	past	he						vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	hide	to-infinitive	he not said here						vn concealment-16-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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