Test 8 · ★ · Hauff's Tales, The False Prince, part 57: Labakan is taken…
Did the queen reckon Labakan was her real son?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: queen, Labakan · What happens: reckon, be · To what, where: real son
This is test 8 · ★ 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 | 4 reckon | aux |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 queen | det |
| 3 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 reckon | nsubj |
| 4 | reckon | reckon | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | Labakan | Labakan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 son | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 son | cop |
| 7 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 son | nmod:poss |
| 8 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 son | amod |
| 9 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 reckon | ccomp |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 reckon | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reckon | past · do-support | the queen | vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is a | past | Labakan | Labakan's real son | tree rules |
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
Yeah, she knew it was him
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 knew | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 knew | punct |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 knew | nsubj |
| 4 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 him | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 him | cop |
| 7 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 knew | ccomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | past | she | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | is a | past | it | him = he | tree rules |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Nah, she knew it wasn't him
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 4 knew | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 knew | nsubj |
| 4 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 him | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 him | cop |
| 7 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 him | advmod |
| 8 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 knew | ccomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | past | she | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | not is a | past | it | him = he | tree rules |
Option 3
Yeah at first, but then she saw his face and realised he was a liar and an impostor
The tree, 18 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 3 first | discourse |
| 2 | at | at | ADP | _ | 3 first | case |
| 3 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 8 saw | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 saw | punct |
| 5 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 8 saw | cc |
| 6 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 saw | advmod |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 saw | nsubj |
| 8 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 face | nmod:poss |
| 10 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 saw | obj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 realised | cc |
| 12 | realised | realise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 saw | conj |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 liar | nsubj |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 liar | cop |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 liar | det |
| 16 | liar | liar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 realised | ccomp |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 impostor | cc |
| 18 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 impostor | det |
| 19 | impostor | impostor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 liar | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | she | his face | then | first property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer face=Stimulus | ||
| 2 | realise | past | she not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | is a | past | he | a liar and a impostor | tree rules |
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice
Nah, she had seen her real son in dreams, and this young man did not look like him at all
The tree, 20 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 5 seen | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 seen | nsubj |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 seen | aux |
| 5 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 son | nmod:poss |
| 7 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 son | amod |
| 8 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 seen | obj |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 dreams | case |
| 10 | dreams | dream | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 seen | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 look | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 look | cc |
| 13 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 15 man | det |
| 14 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 man | amod |
| 15 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 look | nsubj |
| 16 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 look | aux |
| 17 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 18 look | advmod |
| 18 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 seen | parataxis |
| 19 | like | like | ADP | _ | 20 him | case |
| 20 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 look | obl |
| 21 | at | at | ADP | _ | 22 all | case |
| 22 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 18 look | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past · perfect | she | her real son | dreams | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer son=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | not look | past · do-support | this young man | like him = he; at all | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at all=Theme |
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