Test 4 · ★ · fairy tales, The Prince in the Old Man's House, part 15: t…

did the prince actually know how to milk a cow?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: do, know · To what, where: prince

This is test 4 · ★ 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	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 prince	det
3	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 did	obj
4	actually	actually	ADV	_	5 know	advmod
5	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 did	advcl
6	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	5 know	ccomp
7	to	to	PART	_	8 milk	mark
8	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 how	nsubj
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 cow	det
10	cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 how	nsubj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past		the prince					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prince=Eventuality
2	know	present						actually property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: 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 had milked a hundred cows in his father's palace kitchen before

The tree, 16 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 milked	nsubj
6	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 milked	aux
7	milked	milk	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 said	ccomp
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 hundred	det
9	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 cows	nummod
10	cows	cow	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 milked	obj
11	in	in	ADP	_	16 kitchen	case
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 father	nmod:poss
13	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 kitchen	nmod:poss
14	's	's	PART	_	13 father	case
15	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 kitchen	compound
16	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 milked	obl
17	before	before	ADV	_	7 milked	advmod

#	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 clause=Topic
2	milk	past · perfect	he	hundred cows		his father's palace kitchen		before property	vn cheat-10.6.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cow=Source

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Nah, he said he had never done it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 said	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	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	8 done	nsubj
6	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 done	aux
7	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	8 done	advmod
8	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 said	ccomp
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 done	obj

#	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 clause=Topic
2	not do	past · perfect	he	it					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Nah, he said he had never done it, but he had watched country people do it all day

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 said	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	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	8 done	nsubj
6	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 done	aux
7	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	8 done	advmod
8	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 said	ccomp
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 done	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 watched	punct
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	14 watched	cc
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 watched	nsubj
13	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 watched	aux
14	watched	watch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	17 do	advcl
15	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 watched	obj
16	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 do	nsubj
17	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 said	ccomp
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 do	obj
19	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	20 day	det
20	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 do	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	he			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	not do	past · perfect	he	it		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality
3	watch	past · perfect	he	country		vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent country=Theme
4	do	present	people	country	day	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality

Option 4

Yeah, he had done it before

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 done	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 done	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 done	nsubj
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 done	aux
5	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 done	obj
7	before	before	ADV	_	5 done	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past · perfect	he	it				before property	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality

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