Test 14 · ★ · Violet Fairy Book, The Gifts of the Magician, part 22: a b…

No cap, what did the horse whisper to the boy?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: cap · What happens: do · To what, where: horse whisper

This is test 14 · ★ 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	No	no	DET	PronType=Neg	2 cap	det
2	cap	cap	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 did	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 did	punct
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 did	nsubj
5	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 whisper	det
7	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 whisper	compound
8	whisper	whisper	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 did	obj
9	to	to	ADP	_	11 boy	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 boy	det
11	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 did	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	no cap	the horse whisper				to the boy	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whisper=Eventuality

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

A warning that he must heed and remember

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 warning	det
2	warning	warning	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	that	that	SCONJ	_	6 heed	mark
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 heed	nsubj
5	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 heed	aux
6	heed	heed	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 warning	acl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 remember	cc
8	remember	remember	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 heed	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	heed	must	he	a warning not said here					vn abide_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent warning=Theme
2	remember	infinitive	he not said here						vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Something he had to hear

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	root	root
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 had	nsubj
3	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Something	acl:relcl
4	to	to	PART	_	5 hear	mark
5	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 had	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	he						tree rules
2	hear	to-infinitive	he not said here						vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer

Option 3

Something he had to see

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	root	root
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 had	nsubj
3	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Something	acl:relcl
4	to	to	PART	_	5 see	mark
5	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 had	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	he						tree rules
2	see	to-infinitive	he not said here						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

Option 4

A message about the king that he could not refuse

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 message	det
2	message	message	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	about	about	ADP	_	5 king	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 king	det
5	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 message	nmod
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 refuse	mark
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 refuse	nsubj
8	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 refuse	aux
9	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 refuse	advmod
10	refuse	refuse	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 message	acl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not refuse	could	king	a message about the king not said here					vn reject-77.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent message=Theme

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