Test 13 · ★ · Hauff's Tales, The False Prince, part 57: Labakan is taken…

What did the king tell the keepers to do with Omar?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: king · What happens: tell, do · To what, where: keepers · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 13 · ★ 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 tell	obj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 tell	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 king	det
4	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 tell	nsubj
5	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 keepers	det
7	keepers	keeper	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 tell	obj
8	to	to	PART	_	9 do	mark
9	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 tell	ccomp
10	with	with	ADP	_	11 Omar	case
11	Omar	Omar	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 do	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 tell	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past · do-support	the king	the keepers					tree rules
2	do not said to happen	to-infinitive						with Omar	vn act-114-1 «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 · ✓ the right answer

Secure the madman

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Secure	secure	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 madman	det
3	madman	madman	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Secure	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	secure	imperative	you not said here	the madman					vn ensure-99 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition madman=Theme

Option 2

Seize the imposter

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Seize	seize	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 imposter	det
3	imposter	imposter	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Seize	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	seize	imperative	you not said here	the imposter					vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent imposter=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Hold him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hold	hold	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Hold	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hold	imperative	you not said here	him = he					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme

Option 4

Jail him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Jail	jail	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Jail	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	jail	imperative	you not said here	him = he					vn confine-92 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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