Test 9 · ★ · PG 2435, How To Find Out A True Friend, part 61: the princ…

so the king died when he was twelve?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: king · What happens: die, be · To what, where: twelve

This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 721 «PG 2435, How To Find Out A True Friend, part 61: the prince tests two travelling companions with apples and finds a true friend» 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	so	so	ADV	_	4 died	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 king	det
3	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 died	nsubj
4	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	when	when	SCONJ	_	8 twelve	mark
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 twelve	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 twelve	cop
8	twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 died	advcl
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 died	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	die	past	the king						vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
2	is a	past	king	twelve					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 · ✓ the right answer

yeah, that's when his dad bounced

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	8 bounced	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 when	punct
3	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 when	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 when	cop
5	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	8 bounced	advmod
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 dad	nmod:poss
7	dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 bounced	nsubj
8	bounced	bounce	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	that					when property	tree rules
2	bounce	past	his dad						vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

yeah, the dad was grumpy then

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 grumpy	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yeah	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 dad	det
4	dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 grumpy	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 grumpy	cop
6	grumpy	grumpy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 grumpy	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the dad				then	grumpy property	tree rules

Option 3

nah, that was when his mum left

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 when	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 when	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 when	cop
5	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	root	root
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 mum	nmod:poss
7	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 left	nsubj
8	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 when	advcl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	that					when property	tree rules
2	leave	past	his mum						vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

nah, he was older

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 older	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 older	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 older	cop
5	older	old	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	he					old property	tree rules

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