Test 10 · ★ · Hauff's Tales, The False Prince, part 57: Labakan is taken…

Was the throne room all dark or what?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be · To what, where: throne room

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 717 «Hauff's Tales, The False Prince, part 57: Labakan is taken for the prince, but the queen doubts him» 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	Was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 room	cop
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 room	det
3	throne	throne	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 room	compound
4	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 dark	csubj
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 dark	det
6	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	or	or	CCONJ	_	8 what	cc
8	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 dark	conj
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 dark	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the throne room					tree rules

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

Nah, lots of braziers

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	3 lots	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	lots	lot	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 braziers	case
5	braziers	brazier	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 lots	nmod

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

Option 2

Nah, the whole hall was blazing with thousands of golden lamps hung from the high ceiling

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	7 blazing	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 hall	det
4	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 hall	amod
5	hall	hall	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 blazing	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 blazing	aux
7	blazing	blaze	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
8	with	with	ADP	_	9 thousands	case
9	thousands	thousand	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 blazing	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 lamps	case
11	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 lamps	amod
12	lamps	lamp	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 thousands	nmod
13	hung	hang	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 lamps	acl
14	from	from	ADP	_	17 ceiling	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 ceiling	det
16	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 ceiling	amod
17	ceiling	ceiling	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 hung	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	blaze	past · progressive	the whole hall					with thousands of golden lamps	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with thousand=Theme
2	hang	participle		golden lamps not said here		the high ceiling			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Nah, it was bright because of hundreds of burning lamps and mirrors set around the walls

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 bright	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 bright	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 bright	cop
5	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	because	because	SCONJ	_	14 set	mark
7	of	of	ADP	_	6 because	fixed
8	hundreds	hundred	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 set	nsubj
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 lamps	case
10	burning	burn	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 lamps	amod
11	lamps	lamp	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 hundreds	nmod
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 mirrors	cc
13	mirrors	mirror	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 lamps	conj
14	set	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 bright	advcl
15	around	around	ADP	_	17 walls	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 walls	det
17	walls	wall	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 set	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	it		bright property	tree rules
2	burn	gerund				vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	set	present	hundreds of burning lamps and mirrors	the walls		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent around wall=Destination

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Nah, hundreds of lamps

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	3 hundreds	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	hundreds	hundred	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 lamps	case
5	lamps	lamp	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 hundreds	nmod

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

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