Test 12 · ★ · Gods and Fighting Men, Conn the Hundred Fighter, part 30:…

did Conn check if she was telling the truth, like, properly?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: Conn · What happens: check, tell · To what, where: truth · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 1062 «Gods and Fighting Men, Conn the Hundred Fighter, part 30: Conn grieves for his queen and a stranger comes out of the sea» 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	3 check	aux
2	Conn	Conn	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 check	nsubj
3	check	check	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	if	if	SCONJ	_	7 telling	mark
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 telling	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 telling	aux
7	telling	tell	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 check	advcl
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 truth	det
9	truth	truth	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 telling	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 like	punct
11	like	like	INTJ	_	7 telling	discourse
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 properly	punct
13	properly	properly	ADV	_	7 telling	advmod
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 check	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	check	past · do-support	Conn						vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	tell speech: assert a condition, not said to happen	past · progressive	Conn	the truth				properly property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent truth=Recipient

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, he figured she was fine

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 figured	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 figured	nsubj
4	figured	figure	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 fine	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 fine	cop
7	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 figured	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	figure	past	he						vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient
2	is	past	she					fine property	tree rules

Option 2

Nah, he didn't bother

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 bother	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 bother	nsubj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 bother	aux
5	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 bother	advmod
6	bother	bother	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not bother	past · do-support	he						vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

Option 3

Nah, he never checked anything, he just trusted her looks and walked off

The tree, 13 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 checked	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 checked	nsubj
4	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	5 checked	advmod
5	checked	check	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	5 checked	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 trusted	punct
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 trusted	nsubj
9	just	just	ADV	_	10 trusted	advmod
10	trusted	trust	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 checked	conj
11	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 looks	nmod:poss
12	looks	look	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 trusted	obj
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 walked	cc
14	walked	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 checked	conj
15	off	off	ADP	_	14 walked	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	not check	past	he	anything	vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Theme
2	trust	past	he	her looks	vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent look=Theme
3	walk off	past	he not said here		vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Nah, he figured a lovely one must be good

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 figured	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 figured	nsubj
4	figured	figure	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 one	det
6	lovely	lovely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 one	amod
7	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 figured	obj
8	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 good	aux
9	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	10 good	cop
10	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 one	amod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	figure	past	he	a lovely one					vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Patient
2	is	must						good property	tree rules

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