Test 7 · ★ · Old Deccan Days, The Boy with the Moon on his Forehead, pa…

fr, what did the King say he'd do with Katar?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: fr, King · What happens: do, say · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 1845 «Old Deccan Days, The Boy with the Moon on his Forehead, part 29: Katar hides the prince, then the prince becomes a poor servant» 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	fr	fr	NOUN	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	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 say	nsubj
7	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 did	parataxis
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 do	nsubj
9	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 do	aux
10	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 say	ccomp
11	with	with	ADP	_	12 Katar	case
12	Katar	Katar	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 do	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	do	past	fr		vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert	present	the King		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	do	would	King	with Katar	vn act-114-1 «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

sell him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	sell	sell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 sell	iobj

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

Option 2

kill him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	kill	kill	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 kill	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	kill	imperative	you not said here	him = he					vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

have him shot

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	have	have	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 have	obj
3	shot	shoot	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 have	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	imperative	you not said here	him = he					tree rules
2	shoot	participle	him = he not said here						vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 4

have him caught

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 have	obj
3	caught	catch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 have	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present		him = he					tree rules
2	catch	participle	him = he not said here						vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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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