Test 11 · ★ · fairy tales, The Prince in the Old Man's House, part 15: t…

did the prince want to speak in the house, or nah?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: prince · What happens: want, speak · To what, where: house · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 1764 «fairy tales, The Prince in the Old Man's House, part 15: the prince is set a hay task and tricks a horse and a cow» 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	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 prince	aux
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 prince	det
3	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 want	nsubj
4	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 speak	mark
6	speak	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 want	xcomp
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 house	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 house	det
9	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 speak	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 nah	punct
11	or	or	CCONJ	_	12 nah	cc
12	nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 want	discourse
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 want	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	present	the prince						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	speak speech: other not said to happen	to-infinitive	the prince not said here			the house			vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=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

Yeah, he wanted to talk, but the old man told him to hold his tongue at once

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 wanted	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 wanted	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 wanted	nsubj
4	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 talk	mark
6	talk	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 wanted	xcomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 told	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	12 told	cc
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 man	det
10	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 man	amod
11	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 told	nsubj
12	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 wanted	conj
13	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 told	iobj
14	to	to	PART	_	15 hold	mark
15	hold	hold	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 told	xcomp
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 tongue	nmod:poss
17	tongue	tongue	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 hold	obj
18	at	at	ADP	_	19 once	case
19	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	15 hold	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	want	past	he			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	talk not said to happen	to-infinitive	he not said here			vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	tell speech: assert	past	the old man		him = he	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
4	hold not said to happen	to-infinitive	the old man not said here	man's tongue		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent tongue=Theme at once=Location

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Yeah, but he was told to stay quiet

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 told	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 told	punct
3	but	but	CCONJ	_	6 told	cc
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 told	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 told	aux:pass
6	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 stay	mark
8	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 told	xcomp
9	quiet	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 stay	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past · passive		he					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic
2	stay not said to happen	to-infinitive	he not said here					quiet property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

No, he did not want to speak, but the old man told him to hold his tongue anyway

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	6 want	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 want	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 want	nsubj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 want	aux
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 want	advmod
6	want	want	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 speak	mark
8	speak	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 want	xcomp
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 told	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	14 told	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 man	det
12	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 man	amod
13	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 told	nsubj
14	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 want	conj
15	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 told	iobj
16	to	to	PART	_	17 hold	mark
17	hold	hold	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 told	xcomp
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 tongue	nmod:poss
19	tongue	tongue	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 hold	obj
20	anyway	anyway	ADV	_	17 hold	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	not want	past · do-support	he				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	speak speech: other not said to happen	to-infinitive	he not said here				vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	tell speech: assert	past	the old man		him = he		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
4	hold not said to happen	to-infinitive	the old man not said here	man's tongue		anyway property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tongue=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, but he got told to hold his tongue

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 told	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 told	punct
3	but	but	CCONJ	_	6 told	cc
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 told	nsubj
5	got	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 told	aux:pass
6	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 hold	mark
8	hold	hold	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 told	xcomp
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 tongue	nmod:poss
10	tongue	tongue	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 hold	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past · passive		he					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic
2	hold not said to happen	to-infinitive	he not said here	his tongue					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tongue=Theme

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