Test 12 · ★ · Violet Fairy Book, The Gifts of the Magician, part 22: a b…

Yo, what did the king want to pay for the horse?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: king · What happens: do, want, pay

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 682 «Violet Fairy Book, The Gifts of the Magician, part 22: a boy saves a magician from wolves and wins his horse» 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	Yo	yo	INTJ	_	4 did	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yo	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 king	det
6	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 want	nsubj
7	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 did	ccomp
8	to	to	PART	_	9 pay	mark
9	pay	pay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 want	xcomp
10	for	for	ADP	_	12 horse	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 horse	det
12	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 pay	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	do	past			tree rules
2	want	present	the king		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3	pay not said to happen	to-infinitive	the king not said here	for the horse	vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent for horse=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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Any price he liked

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	2 price	det
2	price	price	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 liked	nsubj
4	liked	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 price	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	like	past	he	any price not said here					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot price=Theme

Option 2

Whatever price he named

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Whatever	whatever	PRON	PronType=Rel	root	root
2	price	price	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Whatever	nsubj
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 named	nsubj
4	named	name	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Whatever	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	name	past	price						vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Any price the horse's owner might ask him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	2 price	det
2	price	price	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 ask	nsubj
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 horse	det
4	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 owner	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 horse	case
6	owner	owner	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 price	appos
7	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 ask	aux
8	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 ask	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	might	any price		horse				vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient

Option 4

Any sum he asked

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	2 sum	det
2	sum	sum	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 asked	nsubj
4	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 sum	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	past	he	any sum not said here					vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent sum=Recipient

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