Test 5 · ★ · Fairy Tales (pg2435), The Boy Who Could Keep A Secret: the…

what did the king say he'd give the boy, lol?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: king · What happens: do, say, give · To what, where: boy · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 670 «Fairy Tales (pg2435), The Boy Who Could Keep A Secret: the king adopts the boy, and the sword slides home» 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	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	2 did	nsubj
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
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	2 did	parataxis
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 give	nsubj
7	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 give	aux
8	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 say	ccomp
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 boy	det
10	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 give	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct
12	lol	lol	INTJ	_	2 did	discourse
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	do	past			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert	present	the king		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	give	would	king	the boy	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boy=Theme

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

gold

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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

a wife, the princess

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 wife	det
2	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 princess	punct
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 princess	det
5	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 wife	conj

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3

a crown, the throne

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 crown	det
2	crown	crown	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 throne	punct
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 throne	det
5	throne	throne	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 crown	appos

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4

a horse

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 horse	det
2	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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