Test 7 · ★ · Gods and Fighting Men, Conn the Hundred Fighter, part 30:…
yer man Conn was really gone on his dead wife, wasn't he?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: man · What happens: be, not be · To what, where: Conn
This is test 7 · ★ 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 | yer | yer | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 man | nmod:poss |
| 2 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 gone | nsubj |
| 3 | Conn | Conn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 man | appos |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 gone | cop |
| 5 | really | really | ADV | _ | 6 gone | advmod |
| 6 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 wife | case |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 wife | nmod:poss |
| 9 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 wife | amod |
| 10 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 he | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 wife | punct |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 he | cop |
| 13 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 he | advmod |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 gone | obl |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 gone | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | yer's man | go property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not is a | past | Conn | on man's dead wife | 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, he couldn't forget her
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 6 forget | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yeah | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 forget | nsubj |
| 4 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 forget | aux |
| 5 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 forget | advmod |
| 6 | forget | forget | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 forget | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not forget | could | he | her = she | tree rules |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
No, he had already married again and forgot her entirely by spring
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 6 married | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 married | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 married | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 married | aux |
| 5 | already | already | ADV | _ | 6 married | advmod |
| 6 | married | marry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 forgot | advcl |
| 7 | again | again | ADV | _ | 6 married | advmod |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 forgot | cc |
| 9 | forgot | forget | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 entirely | nmod:poss |
| 11 | entirely | entirely | ADV | _ | 9 forgot | advmod |
| 12 | by | by | ADP | _ | 13 spring | case |
| 13 | spring | spring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 forgot | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | marry | past · perfect · passive | he | again | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 2 | forget | past | spring | entirely property | tree rules |
Option 3
Yeah, he was absolutely mad about her and walked by the sea every night
The tree, 14 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 6 mad | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 mad | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 mad | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 mad | cop |
| 5 | absolutely | absolutely | ADV | _ | 6 mad | advmod |
| 6 | mad | mad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | about | about | ADP | _ | 8 her | case |
| 8 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 mad | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 walked | cc |
| 10 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 mad | conj |
| 11 | by | by | ADP | _ | 13 sea | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 sea | det |
| 13 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 walked | obl |
| 14 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 15 night | det |
| 15 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 walked | obl:unmarked |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | he | about her = she; absolutely, mad property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | walk | past | he not said here | night | by the sea | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by sea=Trajectory |
Option 4
Yeah, he was mad about her
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 5 mad | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yeah | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 mad | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 mad | cop |
| 5 | mad | mad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | about | about | ADP | _ | 7 her | case |
| 7 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 mad | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | he | about her = she; mad property | tree rules |
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