Test 10 · ★ · Indian Fairy Tales, The Son of Seven Queens, part 1: the K…

what's the deal with the fakir's promise?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: deal, fakir · What happens: be, promise

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1837 «Indian Fairy Tales, The Son of Seven Queens, part 1: the King chases a white hind and is tricked into blinding his seven Queens» 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	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 what	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 deal	det
4	deal	deal	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 what	nsubj
5	with	with	ADP	_	9 promise	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 fakir	det
7	fakir	fakir	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 promise	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 fakir	case
9	promise	promise	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 deal	nmod
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 what	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the deal with the fakir's promise						tree rules
2	promise		the fakir						nom promise «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

the queens all get kids, real talk

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 queens	det
2	queens	queen	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 get	nsubj
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 get	advmod
4	get	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	kids	kid	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 get	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 talk	punct
7	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 talk	amod
8	talk	talk	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 get	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	present	the queens	kids				real talk obl	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer kid=Stimulus

Option 2

one queen would have a son, real talk, and the King would be so happy about it

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 queen	nummod
2	queen	queen	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 have	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 have	aux
4	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 son	det
6	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 have	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 talk	punct
8	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 talk	amod
9	talk	talk	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 son	appos
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 happy	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 happy	cc
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 King	det
13	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 happy	nsubj
14	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 happy	aux
15	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	17 happy	cop
16	so	so	ADV	_	17 happy	advmod
17	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 have	conj
18	about	about	ADP	_	19 it	case
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 happy	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	would	one queen	a son					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Patient
2	is	would	the King					about talk; happy property	tree rules

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

a queen would have a boy, fr

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 queen	det
2	queen	queen	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 have	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 have	aux
4	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 boy	det
6	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 have	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 fr	punct
8	fr	fr	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 boy	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	would	a queen	a boy and fr					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boy=Patient

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

one queen would have a son, real talk

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 queen	nummod
2	queen	queen	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 have	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 have	aux
4	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 son	det
6	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 have	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 talk	punct
8	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 talk	amod
9	talk	talk	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 son	appos

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	would	one queen	a son					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Patient

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