Test 13 · ★ · Fairy Book, How the Beggar Boy Turned into Count Piro, par…

So the horse-dealer sent his best horse just like that?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: horse dealer · What happens: send · To what, where: that, best horse

This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 701 «Fairy Book, How the Beggar Boy Turned into Count Piro, part 1: the fox sells pears and coats to the king for a lazy boy» 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	So	so	ADV	_	6 sent	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 dealer	det
3	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 dealer	compound
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 horse	punct
5	dealer	dealer	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sent	nsubj
6	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 horse	nmod:poss
8	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	9 horse	amod
9	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sent	obj
10	just	just	ADV	_	12 that	advmod
11	like	like	ADP	_	12 that	case
12	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 sent	obj
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 sent	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	send	past	the horse dealer	that	dealer's best horse				vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent horse=Destination that=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

Yeah, the fox said the king bid them, bro

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 said	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 fox	det
4	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	nsubj
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 king	det
7	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 bid	nsubj
8	bid	bid	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 said	ccomp
9	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 bid	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 bro	punct
11	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 bid	vocative

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the fox						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	bid	past	the king	them = they				bro vocative	tree rules

Option 2

Nah, he paid, bro

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 paid	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 paid	nsubj
4	paid	pay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 bro	punct
6	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 paid	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pay	past	he	bro					vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bro=Asset

Option 3

Nope, the fox said the king paid, bro

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nope	nope	INTJ	_	5 said	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nope	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 fox	det
4	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	nsubj
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 king	det
7	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 paid	nsubj
8	paid	pay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 said	ccomp
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 bro	punct
10	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 paid	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the fox						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	pay	past	the king	bro					vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bro=Asset

Option 4

Yeah, the fox said it was urgent, bro

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 said	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 fox	det
4	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	nsubj
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 urgent	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 urgent	cop
8	urgent	urgent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 said	ccomp
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 bro	punct
10	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 urgent	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the fox						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	fox					urgent property	tree rules

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