Test 7 · ★ · Fairy Tales, The Little Soldier, part 38: John eats magic…

Seriously, what did the King say about doctors who flopped?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: King, doctors · What happens: do, say, flop · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 1901 «Fairy Tales, The Little Soldier, part 38: John eats magic plums, sells them, and unmasks the horned Princess» 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	Seriously	seriously	ADV	_	4 did	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Seriously	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	about	about	ADP	_	9 doctors	case
9	doctors	doctor	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 say	obl
10	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 flopped	nsubj
11	flopped	flop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 doctors	acl:relcl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	do	past		seriously property	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert	present	the King	about doctors	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	flop	past	doctors		vn assuming_position-50 «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

they'd hang

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 hang	nsubj
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 hang	aux
3	hang	hang	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hang	would	they						vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

they would get hanged

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 hanged	nsubj:pass
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 hanged	aux
3	get	get	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 hanged	aux:pass
4	hanged	hange	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hange	would · passive		they					tree rules

Option 3

they would be jailed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 jailed	nsubj:pass
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 jailed	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 jailed	aux:pass
4	jailed	jail	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	jail	would · passive		they					vn confine-92 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

Option 4

they would be beheaded

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 beheaded	nsubj:pass
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 beheaded	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 beheaded	aux:pass
4	beheaded	behead	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	behead	would · passive		they					vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

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