Test 8 · ★ · Fairy Tales, The Gold-Bearded Man, part 34: the prince fre…

Why does the wild duck keep quoting that weird proverb thing?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: wild duck · What happens: quote

This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 694 «Fairy Tales, The Gold-Bearded Man, part 34: the prince frees a prisoner, meets three grateful creatures, and is set a grain-sorting task» 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	7 quoting	advmod
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 quoting	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 duck	det
4	wild	wild	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 duck	compound
5	duck	duck	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 quoting	nsubj
6	keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 quoting	aux
7	quoting	quote	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
8	that	that	SCONJ	_	11 thing	mark
9	weird	weird	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 proverb	amod
10	proverb	proverb	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 thing	compound
11	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 quoting	advcl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 quoting	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	quote speech: other	present · do-support	the wild duck						vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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

It says creatures always meet again, so it repays him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 says	nsubj
2	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	creatures	creature	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 meet	nsubj
4	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	5 meet	advmod
5	meet	meet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 says	ccomp
6	again	again	ADV	_	5 meet	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 repays	punct
8	so	so	ADV	_	10 repays	advmod
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 repays	nsubj
10	repays	repay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 says	conj
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 repays	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	It				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	meet	present	creatures		again	always property	vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	repay	present	it	him = he			vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient

Option 2

It says creatures always meet again, so it repays him for sparing its life and its sons

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 says	nsubj
2	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	creatures	creature	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 meet	nsubj
4	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	5 meet	advmod
5	meet	meet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 says	ccomp
6	again	again	ADV	_	5 meet	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 repays	punct
8	so	so	ADV	_	10 repays	advmod
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 repays	nsubj
10	repays	repay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 says	conj
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 repays	obj
12	for	for	SCONJ	_	13 sparing	mark
13	sparing	spare	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 repays	advcl
14	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 life	nmod:poss
15	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 sparing	obj
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 sons	cc
17	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 sons	nmod:poss
18	sons	son	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 life	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	It					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	meet	present	creatures			again	always property	vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	repay	present	it		him = he			vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
4	spare	gerund		its life and its sons				vn bill-54.5 «NP V NP NP.asset»: agent=Agent life=Asset

Option 3

It is quoting the proverb because it believes every creature must repay the kindness of another one day in turn

The tree, 20 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 quoting	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 quoting	aux
3	quoting	quote	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 proverb	det
5	proverb	proverb	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 quoting	obj
6	because	because	SCONJ	_	8 believes	mark
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 believes	nsubj
8	believes	believe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 quoting	advcl
9	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	10 creature	det
10	creature	creature	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 repay	nsubj
11	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 repay	aux
12	repay	repay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 believes	ccomp
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 kindness	det
14	kindness	kindness	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 repay	obj
15	of	of	ADP	_	18 day	case
16	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	18 day	det
17	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	18 day	nummod
18	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 kindness	nmod
19	in	in	ADP	_	20 turn	case
20	turn	turn	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 repay	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	quote speech: other	present · progressive	It	the proverb		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent proverb=Topic
2	believe	present	proverb			vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	repay	must	every creature	the kindness of another one day	turn	vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent kindness=Recipient

Option 4

It remembers the proverb and wants to be kind

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 remembers	nsubj
2	remembers	remember	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 proverb	det
4	proverb	proverb	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 remembers	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 wants	cc
6	wants	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 remembers	conj
7	to	to	PART	_	9 kind	mark
8	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 kind	cop
9	kind	kind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 wants	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	remember	present	It	the proverb		vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent proverb=Theme
2	want	present				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Pivot
3	is not said to happen	to-infinitive			kind property	tree rules

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