Test 4 · ★ · Hauff's Tales, The False Prince, part 57: Labakan is taken…

Wot did Labakan say when he handed over the dagger, like?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Wot, Labakan · What happens: say, hand · To what, where: dagger · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 4 · ★ 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	Wot	Wot	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 say	nsubj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 say	aux
3	Labakan	Labakan	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 say	nsubj
4	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	7 handed	advmod
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 handed	nsubj
7	handed	hand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 say	ccomp
8	over	over	ADP	_	10 dagger	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 dagger	det
10	dagger	dagger	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 handed	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 like	punct
12	like	like	ADP	_	7 handed	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 say	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past · do-support	Wot						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	hand	past	Labakan			the dagger			vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP»: 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

"Here I am."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Here	punct
2	Here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	root	root
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 Here	nsubj
4	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 Here	cop
5	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 Here	punct
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Here	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	I					here property	tree rules

Option 2

"I am here."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 here	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 here	nsubj
3	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 here	cop
4	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	root	root
5	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 here	punct
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 here	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	I					here property	tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

"Here am I whom you seek."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Here	punct
2	Here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	root	root
3	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 Here	cop
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 Here	nsubj
5	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 seek	obj
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 seek	nsubj
7	seek	seek	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 Here	ccomp
8	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 Here	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Here	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	I					here property	tree rules
2	seek in a quote	present	you						vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whom=Theme

Option 4

"Behold the one you want."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 one	punct
2	Behold	behold	INTJ	_	4 one	discourse
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 one	det
4	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 want	nsubj
6	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 one	acl:relcl
7	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 one	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 one	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want in a quote	present	you	the one not said here					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot one=Theme

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