Test 6 · ★ · Grimm, Spindle, Shuttle, and Needle, part 1: a spinning gi…

Mad, what did the King start to reckon about the Lion?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: King · What happens: do, start, reckon

This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 1925 «Grimm, Spindle, Shuttle, and Needle, part 1: a spinning girl's spindle leads a prince to her door» 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	Mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
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	1 Mad	parataxis
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 King	det
6	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 start	nsubj
7	start	start	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 did	ccomp
8	to	to	PART	_	9 reckon	mark
9	reckon	reckon	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 start	xcomp
10	about	about	ADP	_	12 Lion	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 Lion	det
12	Lion	Lion	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 reckon	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Mad	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	do	past			tree rules
2	start	present	the King		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	reckon	to-infinitive	the King not said here	about the Lion	vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: 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

that the huntsmen were girls and the Lion was lying

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	that	that	SCONJ	_	5 girls	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 huntsmen	det
3	huntsmen	huntsman	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 girls	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 girls	cop
5	girls	girl	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 lying	cc
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Lion	det
8	Lion	Lion	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 lying	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 lying	aux
10	lying	lie	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 girls	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	the huntsmen	girls					tree rules
2	lie	past · progressive	the Lion						vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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

that the Lion was lying

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	that	that	SCONJ	_	5 lying	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Lion	det
3	Lion	Lion	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 lying	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 lying	aux
5	lying	lie	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lie	past · progressive	the Lion						vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

that the Lion was telling the truth after all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	that	that	SCONJ	_	5 telling	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Lion	det
3	Lion	Lion	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 telling	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 telling	aux
5	telling	tell	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 truth	det
7	truth	truth	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 telling	obj
8	after	after	ADP	_	9 all	case
9	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 telling	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past · progressive	the Lion	the truth			after all		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent truth=Recipient

Option 4

that the Lion was a fool

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	that	that	SCONJ	_	6 fool	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Lion	det
3	Lion	Lion	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 fool	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 fool	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 fool	det
6	fool	fool	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	the Lion	a fool					tree rules

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