Test 14 · ★ · Hauff's Tales, The False Prince, part 57: Labakan is taken…

Did Labakan own up to the lie, mate?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Labakan · What happens: own up

This is test 14 · ★ 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	Did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 own	aux
2	Labakan	Labakan	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 own	nsubj
3	own	own	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	up	up	ADP	_	3 own	compound:prt
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 lie	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 lie	det
7	lie	lie	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 own	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 mate	punct
9	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 lie	conj
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 own	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	own up	past · do-support	Labakan					to the lie and mate	vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot

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, he kept on pretending and told the king that he really was the son

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 kept	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 kept	nsubj
4	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	on	on	SCONJ	_	6 pretending	mark
6	pretending	pretend	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 kept	advcl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 told	cc
8	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 kept	conj
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 king	det
10	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 told	obj
11	that	that	SCONJ	_	16 son	mark
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 son	nsubj
13	really	really	ADV	_	16 son	advmod
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 son	cop
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 son	det
16	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 told	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	keep	past	he			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	pretend	gerund	he not said here			tree rules
3	tell speech: assert	past	he not said here		the king	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent king=Recipient
4	is a	past	king	the son		tree rules

Option 2

Yeah, he admitted everything to the queen, but then remained silent before the court

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 admitted	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 admitted	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 admitted	nsubj
4	admitted	admit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	4 admitted	obj
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 queen	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 queen	det
8	queen	queen	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 admitted	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 remained	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	12 remained	cc
11	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	12 remained	advmod
12	remained	remain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 admitted	conj
13	silent	silent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 remained	xcomp
14	before	before	ADP	_	16 court	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 court	det
16	court	court	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 remained	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	admit speech: other	past	he	everything	the queen				vn confess-37.10 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent everything=Topic to queen=Recipient
2	remain	past	he not said here			the court	then	silent property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme before court=Location

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Nah, he kept quiet

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 kept	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 kept	nsubj
4	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	quiet	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 kept	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	past	he					quiet property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Yeah

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	root	root

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

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