Test 9 · ★ · Crock of Gold, The Wooing of Becfola, part 19: the High Ki…

how did the king feel about the lady at first?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: king · What happens: feel

This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 1051 «Crock of Gold, The Wooing of Becfola, part 19: the High King asks a silent lady in a chariot to marry 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	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	5 feel	advmod
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 feel	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 king	det
4	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 feel	nsubj
5	feel	feel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	about	about	ADP	_	8 lady	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 lady	det
8	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 feel	obl
9	at	at	ADP	_	10 first	case
10	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	5 feel	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 feel	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	feel	past · do-support	the king					about the lady	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent about lady=Location

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

he thought she was a witch and wanted her gone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 thought	nsubj
2	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 witch	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 witch	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 witch	det
6	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 thought	ccomp
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 wanted	cc
8	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 thought	conj
9	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 wanted	obj
10	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 wanted	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	he		vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is a	past	she	a witch	tree rules
3	want	past	he not said here	her = she	tree rules
4	go not said to happen	participle	her = she not said here		vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

he was furious that she had not stopped for him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 furious	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 furious	cop
3	furious	furious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	8 stopped	mark
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 stopped	nsubj
6	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 stopped	aux
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 stopped	advmod
8	stopped	stop	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 furious	advcl
9	for	for	ADP	_	10 him	case
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 stopped	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	he					furious property	tree rules
2	not stop	past · perfect	she					for him = he	vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

Option 3

he was quite unsure

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 unsure	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 unsure	cop
3	quite	quite	ADV	_	4 unsure	advmod
4	unsure	unsure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

he was dead impressed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 impressed	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 impressed	cop
3	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 impressed	amod
4	impressed	impressed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

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