Test 7 · ★ · Indian Fairy Tales, The Prince and the Vizier's Son, part…

Did the prince listen to his mate, or did he just go along with it?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: prince · What happens: listen, do, go along

This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 1852 «Indian Fairy Tales, The Prince and the Vizier's Son, part 36: the prince falls for a fairy's reflection, and the friends escape the robbers» 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=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 listen	aux
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 prince	det
3	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 listen	nsubj
4	listen	listen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 mate	case
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 mate	nmod:poss
7	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 listen	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 did	punct
9	or	or	CCONJ	_	10 did	cc
10	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 listen	advcl
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 go	nsubj
12	just	just	ADV	_	13 go	advmod
13	go	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 did	ccomp
14	along	along	ADV	_	13 go	advmod
15	with	with	ADP	_	16 it	case
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 go	obl
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 listen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	listen	past · do-support	the prince	to prince's mate	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to mate=Theme
2	do	past	the prince not said here		tree rules
3	go along	present	prince	with mate; along property	vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with it=Beneficiary

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

He listened, but he went his own way

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 listened	nsubj
2	listened	listen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 went	punct
4	but	but	CCONJ	_	6 went	cc
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 went	nsubj
6	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 listened	conj
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 way	nmod:poss
8	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 way	amod
9	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 went	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	listen	past	He						vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
2	go	past	he	his own way					vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location way=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

He was knackered, so he said, "Very well"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 knackered	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 knackered	aux:pass
3	knackered	knacker	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct
5	so	so	ADV	_	7 said	advmod
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 said	nsubj
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 knackered	parataxis
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 well	punct
10	Very	very	ADV	_	11 well	advmod
11	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	3 knackered	advmod
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 well	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	knacker	past · passive		He				well property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	he						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

Option 3

He argued, but then he just agreed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 argued	nsubj
2	argued	argue	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 agreed	punct
4	but	but	CCONJ	_	8 agreed	cc
5	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 agreed	advmod
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 agreed	nsubj
7	just	just	ADV	_	8 agreed	advmod
8	agreed	agree	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 argued	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	argue speech: disagree	past	He						vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	agree speech: agree	past	he				then		vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

He just went along, mate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 went	nsubj
2	just	just	ADV	_	3 went	advmod
3	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	along	along	ADV	_	3 went	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 mate	punct
6	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 went	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go along	past	He	mate				along property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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