Test 7 · ★ · Hauff's Tales, The False Prince, part 57: Labakan is taken…

Like, what did the king say the dagger proved?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: king · What happens: say, prove · To what, where: dagger · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 7 · ★ 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	Like	like	INTJ	_	7 say	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Like	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 say	obj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 say	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 king	det
6	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 say	nsubj
7	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 dagger	det
9	dagger	dagger	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 say	obj
10	proved	prove	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 dagger	acl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 say	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past · do-support	the king	the dagger					vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme dagger=Manner
2	prove	participle		the dagger not said here					vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: 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

It's his

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 his	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 his	cop
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	his = he					tree rules

Option 2

It's the ring from Elfi

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 ring	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 ring	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 ring	det
4	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	from	from	ADP	_	6 Elfi	case
6	Elfi	Elfi	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 ring	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	the ring		Elfi			tree rules

Option 3

It's the sign from Sached

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 sign	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 sign	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 sign	det
4	sign	sign	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	from	from	ADP	_	6 Sached	case
6	Sached	Sached	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 sign	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	the sign		Sached			tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

It's the token from Elfi

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 token	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 token	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 token	det
4	token	token	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	from	from	ADP	_	6 Elfi	case
6	Elfi	Elfi	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 token	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	the token		Elfi			tree rules

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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