Test 8 · ★ · Gods and Fighting Men, Mongan's Frenzy, part 35: the story…

Did Mongan ever actually tell her the story, or what?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: you · What happens: do, tell · To what, where: Mongan, story · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 1067 «Gods and Fighting Men, Mongan's Frenzy, part 35: the storyteller Cairide tells his tale to the abbot, while the Flame Lady grows jealous of Duv Laca» 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	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 tell	advcl
2	Mongan	Mongan	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Did	obj
3	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	5 tell	advmod
4	actually	actually	ADV	_	5 tell	advmod
5	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 tell	iobj
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 story	det
8	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 tell	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 what	punct
10	or	or	CCONJ	_	11 what	cc
11	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 tell	ccomp
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 tell	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	you not said here	Mongan					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mongan=Eventuality
2	tell speech: assert	imperative	you not said here	the story	Mongan		ever	actually property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient story=Topic

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

yes, he told it at Tara

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 told	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yes	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 told	nsubj
4	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 told	obj
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 Tara	case
7	Tara	Tara	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 told	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	he		it	Tara			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Recipient

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

no, he kept putting it off

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	no	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 kept	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 kept	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 kept	nsubj
4	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	putting	put	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 kept	xcomp
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 putting	obj
7	off	off	ADP	_	5 putting	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	past	he						tree rules
2	put off	gerund	he not said here	it					vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent it=Goal

Option 3

no, he kept putting it off until his wife finally forgot about the promise entirely

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	no	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 kept	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 kept	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 kept	nsubj
4	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	putting	put	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 kept	xcomp
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 putting	obj
7	off	off	ADP	_	5 putting	compound:prt
8	until	until	SCONJ	_	12 forgot	mark
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 wife	nmod:poss
10	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 forgot	nsubj
11	finally	finally	ADV	_	12 forgot	advmod
12	forgot	forget	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 kept	advcl
13	about	about	ADP	_	15 promise	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 promise	det
15	promise	promise	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 forgot	obl
16	entirely	entirely	ADV	_	12 forgot	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	keep	past	he			tree rules
2	put off	gerund	he not said here	it		vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent it=Goal
3	forget	past	his wife		about the promise; entirely, finally property	tree rules

Option 4

yes, he told her the whole of it that very night while the candles burned low

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 told	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yes	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 told	nsubj
4	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 told	iobj
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 whole	det
7	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 told	xcomp
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 it	case
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 whole	obl
10	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 whole	dep
11	very	very	ADV	_	12 night	advmod
12	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 told	obl
13	while	while	SCONJ	_	16 burned	mark
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 candles	det
15	candles	candle	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 burned	nsubj:pass
16	burned	burn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 told	ccomp
17	low	low	ADV	Degree=Pos	16 burned	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	he		her = she		night	whole property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic
2	burn	participle · passive		the candles				low property	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme

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