Test 12 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, Whittington and His Cat: Dick gets hi…

Did the queen actually understand what the captain said?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · What happens: do, understand, say · To what, where: queen · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 1969 «English Fairy Tales, Whittington and His Cat: Dick gets his riches, marries Alice, and a new tale begins» 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	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 queen	det
3	queen	queen	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Did	obj
4	actually	actually	ADV	_	5 understand	advmod
5	understand	understand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Did	parataxis
6	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	9 said	nsubj:pass
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 captain	det
8	captain	captain	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 said	nsubj
9	said	say	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 understand	ccomp
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	other	roles by
1	do	past	the queen		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent queen=Eventuality
2	understand	present		actually property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	say speech: assert	participle · passive			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic

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 · ✓ the right answer

Nah, she had not learned English

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 learned	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 learned	nsubj
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 learned	aux
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 learned	advmod
6	learned	learn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	English	English	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 learned	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not learn	past · perfect	she	English					vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent english=Topic

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Yeah, she understood every word the captain said, every single one of them

The tree, 13 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 understood	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 understood	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 understood	nsubj
4	understood	understand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	6 word	det
6	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 understood	obj
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 captain	det
8	captain	captain	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 said	nsubj
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 word	acl:relcl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 one	punct
11	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	13 one	det
12	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 one	amod
13	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 word	appos
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 them	case
15	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 one	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	understand	past	she	every word					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer word=Stimulus
2	say speech: assert	past	the captain	every word not said here					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent word=Topic

Option 3

Yeah, she spoke it well

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 spoke	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 spoke	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 spoke	nsubj
4	spoke	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 spoke	obj
6	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 spoke	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	speak speech: other	past	she	it				well property	tree rules

Option 4

Nah, she had not yet learned English, so she only understood the cat

The tree, 13 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	7 learned	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 learned	nsubj
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 learned	aux
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 learned	advmod
6	yet	yet	ADV	_	7 learned	advmod
7	learned	learn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
8	English	English	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 learned	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 understood	punct
10	so	so	ADV	_	13 understood	advmod
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 understood	nsubj
12	only	only	ADV	_	13 understood	advmod
13	understood	understand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 learned	conj
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 cat	det
15	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 understood	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not learn	past · perfect	she	English			yet		vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent english=Topic
2	understand	past	English	the cat					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer cat=Stimulus

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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