Test 2 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Nightingale, part 67: the Empe…

So the Emperor, did he even know about the bird before, innit?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: Emperor · What happens: do, know, innit

This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 1743 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Nightingale, part 67: the Emperor hears of the bird, and the little kitchenmaid leads the Court to her in the wood» 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	So	so	ADV	_	5 did	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Emperor	det
3	Emperor	Emperor	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 did	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 Emperor	punct
5	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 know	nsubj
7	even	even	ADV	_	8 know	advmod
8	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 did	parataxis
9	about	about	ADP	_	11 bird	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 bird	det
11	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 know	obl
12	before	before	ADV	_	8 know	advmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 innit	punct
14	innit	innit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 know	conj
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	do	past	the Emperor		vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	know	present	Emperor	about the bird; before property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer about bird=Stimulus
3	innit	infinitive	Emperor not said here		tree rules

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

no, he'd never heard of it and didn't want to hear more about it

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	no	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	6 heard	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 heard	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 heard	nsubj
4	'd	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 heard	aux
5	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	6 heard	advmod
6	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 it	case
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 heard	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 want	cc
10	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 want	aux
11	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 want	advmod
12	want	want	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 heard	conj
13	to	to	PART	_	14 hear	mark
14	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 want	xcomp
15	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	14 hear	obj
16	about	about	ADP	_	17 it	case
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 more	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not hear	past · perfect	he		of it	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of it=Stimulus
2	not want	past · do-support	he not said here			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3	hear not said to happen	to-infinitive	he not said here	more	about it	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer more=Stimulus

Option 2

no, he'd never heard of it, not even from his books

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	no	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	6 heard	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 heard	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 heard	nsubj
4	'd	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 heard	aux
5	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	6 heard	advmod
6	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 it	case
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 heard	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 books	punct
10	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 books	advmod
11	even	even	ADV	_	14 books	advmod
12	from	from	ADP	_	14 books	case
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 books	nmod:poss
14	books	book	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 heard	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not hear	past · perfect	he			his books		of it	vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.theme PP.source»: agent=Agent of it=Theme from book=Source

Option 3

he'd heard of it once

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 heard	nsubj
2	'd	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 heard	aux
3	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 it	case
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 heard	obl
6	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	3 heard	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hear	past · perfect	he					of it; once property	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of it=Stimulus

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

no, he'd never heard of it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	no	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	6 heard	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 heard	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 heard	nsubj
4	'd	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 heard	aux
5	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	6 heard	advmod
6	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 it	case
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 heard	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not hear	past · perfect	he					of it	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of it=Stimulus

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