Test 8 · ★ · Blue Fairy Book, Prince Omar: the ivory box test shows who…

what did the king say, the cobbler thing, like stick to your needle?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: king · What happens: do, say · To what, where: king · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 718 «Blue Fairy Book, Prince Omar: the ivory box test shows who is the true prince» 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	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	2 did	nsubj
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 king	det
4	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 did	obj
5	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 king	acl:relcl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 thing	punct
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 thing	det
8	cobbler	cobbler	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 thing	compound
9	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 did	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 stick	punct
11	like	like	ADP	_	12 stick	case
12	stick	stick	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 thing	appos
13	to	to	ADP	_	15 needle	case
14	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 needle	nmod:poss
15	needle	needle	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 stick	nmod
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past		the king					tree rules
2	say speech: assert	present	the king not said here						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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

Nah, stick to your scissors

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	3 stick	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	stick	stick	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 scissors	case
5	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 scissors	nmod:poss
6	scissors	scissors	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 stick	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stick	imperative	you not said here					to your scissors	vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent to scissors=Co-Patient

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Yeah, every tailor should keep to his trade and never wander

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 keep	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	4 tailor	det
4	tailor	tailor	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 keep	nsubj
5	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 keep	aux
6	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	to	to	ADP	_	9 trade	case
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 trade	nmod:poss
9	trade	trade	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 keep	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 wander	cc
11	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	12 wander	advmod
12	wander	wander	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 keep	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	keep	should	every tailor	to tailor's trade	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	not wander	infinitive	every tailor not said here		vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	trade		tailor		nom trade «act transitive»: poss=agent

Option 3

Yeah, the cobbler sticks to his last, so stick to your needle

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	11 stick	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 sticks	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 cobbler	det
4	cobbler	cobbler	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sticks	nsubj
5	sticks	stick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 stick	advcl
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 last	case
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 last	nmod:poss
8	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 sticks	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 stick	punct
10	so	so	ADV	_	11 stick	advmod
11	stick	stick	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	to	to	ADP	_	14 needle	case
13	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 needle	nmod:poss
14	needle	needle	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 stick	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stick	present	the cobbler					to cobbler's last	vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent to last=Co-Patient
2	stick	imperative	you not said here					to your needle	vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent to needle=Co-Patient

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, stick to your needle

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	3 stick	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	stick	stick	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 needle	case
5	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 needle	nmod:poss
6	needle	needle	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 stick	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stick	imperative	you not said here					to your needle	vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent to needle=Co-Patient

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