Test 9 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Flying Trunk: the kitchen talk ends…

What's the king's big line about the merchant's son?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: big line · What happens: be

This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 829 «Andersen's Tales, The Flying Trunk: the kitchen talk ends and the trunk burns» 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	root	root
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 king	det
4	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 line	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 king	case
6	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 line	amod
7	line	line	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
8	about	about	ADP	_	12 son	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 merchant	det
10	merchant	merchant	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 son	nmod:poss
11	's	's	PART	_	10 merchant	case
12	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 line	nmod
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the king's big line about the merchant's 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 · ← Mova's choice

thou shalt have our daughter and the whole of our kingdom too

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	3 have	nsubj
2	shalt	shall	AUX	Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin	3 have	aux
3	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 daughter	nmod:poss
5	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 have	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 whole	cc
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 whole	det
8	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 have	conj
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 kingdom	case
10	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 kingdom	nmod:poss
11	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 whole	obl
12	too	too	ADV	_	3 have	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	shall	thou	our daughter					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Patient

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

thou shalt have our daughter

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	3 have	nsubj
2	shalt	shall	AUX	Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin	3 have	aux
3	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 daughter	nmod:poss
5	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 have	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	shall	thou	our daughter					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Patient

Option 3

thou shalt have our daughter if thou canst fly to the moon

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	3 have	nsubj
2	shalt	shall	AUX	Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin	3 have	aux
3	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 daughter	nmod:poss
5	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 have	obj
6	if	if	SCONJ	_	9 fly	mark
7	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	9 fly	nsubj
8	canst	can	AUX	Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin	9 fly	aux
9	fly	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 have	advcl
10	to	to	ADP	_	12 moon	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 moon	det
12	moon	moon	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 fly	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	shall	thou	our daughter					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Patient
2	fly a condition, not said to happen	can	thou					to the moon result	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to moon=Result

Option 4

thou art a clever lad

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	2 art	nsubj
2	art	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 lad	det
4	clever	clever	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 lad	amod
5	lad	lad	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 art	obj

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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