Test 6 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, Nix Nought Nothing, part 1: a king pr…

Why did the king say yes, was he being a div?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: king · What happens: say, be · To what, where: div · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 1947 «English Fairy Tales, Nix Nought Nothing, part 1: a king promises his son to a giant, and the boy escapes with the giant's daughter» 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	5 say	advmod
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 say	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 king	det
4	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 say	nsubj
5	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 div	advcl
6	yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 say	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 say	punct
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 div	cop
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 div	nsubj
10	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 div	cop
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 div	det
12	div	div	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	12 div	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past · do-support	the king						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent yes=Topic
2	is a	past	king	a div					tree rules

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 · ← Mova's choice

he was tired of walking home

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 tired	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 tired	cop
3	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	of	of	SCONJ	_	5 walking	mark
5	walking	walk	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 tired	advcl
6	home	home	ADV	_	5 walking	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	he					tired property	tree rules
2	walk	gerund	he not said here					home property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

he never heard the boy's name at the gate

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 heard	nsubj
2	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	3 heard	advmod
3	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 boy	det
5	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 name	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 boy	case
7	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 heard	obj
8	at	at	ADP	_	10 gate	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 gate	det
10	gate	gate	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 heard	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not hear	past	he	the boy's name		the gate			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer name=Stimulus
2	name		the boy						nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

he never heard the boy's name

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 heard	nsubj
2	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	3 heard	advmod
3	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 boy	det
5	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 name	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 boy	case
7	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 heard	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not hear	past	he	the boy's name					vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer name=Stimulus
2	name		the boy						nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent

Option 4

he was afraid of the giant

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 afraid	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 afraid	cop
3	afraid	afraid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 giant	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 giant	det
6	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 afraid	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	he					of the giant; afraid property	tree rules

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