Test 13 · ★ · Brave Deeds, The Soldier and the Swede, part 7: a soldier…

Fr, what did the queen say when she saw him?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Fr · What happens: do, say, see · To what, where: queen, him · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 347 «Brave Deeds, The Soldier and the Swede, part 7: a soldier spares a wounded enemy, and English heroes and a little Indian girl show courage» 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	Fr	fr	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 say	nsubj
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 Fr	acl:relcl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 queen	det
6	queen	queen	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obj
7	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	10 saw	advmod
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 saw	nsubj
10	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 say	ccomp
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 saw	obj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 say	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	do	past	Fr	the queen	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent queen=Eventuality
2	say speech: assert	present	Fr		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	see	past	Fr	him = he	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus

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 · ✓ the right answer

Who is that brave gentleman?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 gentleman	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 gentleman	cop
3	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 gentleman	det
4	brave	brave	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 gentleman	amod
5	gentleman	gentleman	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 gentleman	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		that brave gentleman					tree rules

Option 2

What is that strange cloak?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	that	that	SCONJ	_	5 cloak	mark
4	strange	strange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 cloak	amod
5	cloak	cloak	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	strange cloak						tree rules

Option 3

Who is that brave gentleman standing by the puddle?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 gentleman	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 gentleman	cop
3	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 gentleman	det
4	brave	brave	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 gentleman	amod
5	gentleman	gentleman	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	standing	stand	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 gentleman	acl
7	by	by	ADP	_	9 puddle	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 puddle	det
9	puddle	puddle	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 standing	obl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 gentleman	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		that brave gentleman					tree rules
2	stand	gerund	that brave gentleman not said here					by the puddle	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by puddle=Location

Option 4

Who sent that messenger?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	2 sent	nsubj
2	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 messenger	det
4	messenger	messenger	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sent	obj
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 sent	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	send	past		that messenger					vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent messenger=Theme

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