Test 6 · ★ · Hauff's Tales, The False Prince, part 57: Labakan is taken…

Why did the sultan hide his son away for ages?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: sultan · What happens: hide away · To what, where: son

This is test 6 · ★ 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	5 hide	advmod
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 hide	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 sultan	det
4	sultan	sultan	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 hide	nsubj
5	hide	hide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 son	nmod:poss
7	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 hide	obj
8	away	away	ADV	_	5 hide	advmod
9	for	for	ADP	_	10 ages	case
10	ages	age	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 hide	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 hide	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hide away	past · do-support	the sultan	sultan's son			for ages	away property	vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Patient

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

Fear of his enemies

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fear	fear	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	of	of	ADP	_	4 enemies	case
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 enemies	nmod:poss
4	enemies	enemy	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Fear	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fear			his enemies					nom fear «feeling transitive»: of=patient

Option 2

The stars said danger

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 stars	det
2	stars	star	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 said	nsubj
3	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	danger	danger	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 said	nsubj

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

Option 3

The sooth-sayers had foretold that the prince would be in mortal peril before twenty-two

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 sayers	det
2	sooth	sooth	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sayers	compound
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 sooth	punct
4	sayers	sayer	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 foretold	nsubj:pass
5	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 foretold	aux
6	foretold	foretell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	that	that	SCONJ	_	14 peril	mark
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 prince	det
9	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 peril	nsubj
10	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 peril	aux
11	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	14 peril	cop
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 peril	case
13	mortal	mortal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 peril	amod
14	peril	peril	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 foretold	advcl
15	before	before	ADP	_	18 two	case
16	twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	18 two	compound
17	-	-	PUNCT	_	16 twenty	punct
18	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 foretold	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	foretell	past · perfect · passive		the sooth sayers			before twenty two		vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2	is	would	the prince			mortal peril			tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

The sooth-sayers said danger

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 sayers	det
2	sooth	sooth	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sayers	compound
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 sooth	punct
4	sayers	sayer	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 said	nsubj
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	danger	danger	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	nsubj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the sooth sayers						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

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