Test 10 · ★ · Lang's Fairy Book, The Lute Player, part 1: a king is take…

Innit, what did the king's letter tell the queen to do?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Innit, letter, king · What happens: do, tell, letter · To what, where: queen · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1761 «Lang's Fairy Book, The Lute Player, part 1: a king is taken prisoner and his queen sets out disguised as a boy» 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	Innit	Innit	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 did	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 king	det
6	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 letter	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 king	case
8	letter	letter	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 tell	nsubj
9	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 did	parataxis
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 queen	det
11	queen	queen	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 tell	obj
12	to	to	PART	_	13 do	mark
13	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 tell	ccomp
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	roles by
1	do	past	Innit		vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	tell speech: assert	present	the king's letter	the queen	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent queen=Recipient clause=Topic
3	do not said to happen	to-infinitive			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	letter		the king		nom letter «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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

sell horses

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	sell	sell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 sell	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sell	imperative	you not said here	horses					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Theme

Option 2

sell gold

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	sell	sell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 sell	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sell	imperative	you not said here	gold					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gold=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

sell the castles

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	sell	sell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 castles	det
3	castles	castle	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 sell	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sell	imperative	you not said here	the castles					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent castle=Theme

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

sell her jewels

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	sell	sell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 jewels	nmod:poss
3	jewels	jewel	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 sell	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sell	imperative	you not said here	her jewels					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent jewel=Theme

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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