Test 4 · ★ · Gods and Fighting Men, The Story of Mongan, part 36: a hai…

Mongan's wife asked where they were, so what did he say?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: wife, they, Mongan · What happens: ask, be, say · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 1068 «Gods and Fighting Men, The Story of Mongan, part 36: a hailstorm sends Mongan into Faery, where a feast and a tale begin» 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	Mongan	Mongan	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 wife	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Mongan	case
3	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 asked	nsubj
4	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	7 were	advmod
6	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 were	nsubj
7	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 asked	ccomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 say	punct
9	so	so	ADV	_	13 say	advmod
10	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	13 say	obj
11	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 say	aux
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 say	nsubj
13	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 asked	conj
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 asked	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	past	Mongan's wife	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	be	past	they	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	say speech: assert	past · do-support	Mongan	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Why, we are here, sure

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	5 here	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Why	punct
3	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 here	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 here	cop
5	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 sure	punct
7	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 here	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	we					here property	tree rules
2	be		we not said here						tree rules

Option 2

Why, we are still here, sure, where else would we be?

The tree, 11 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	6 here	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Why	punct
3	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 here	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 here	cop
5	still	still	ADV	_	6 here	advmod
6	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 sure	punct
8	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 here	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 be	punct
10	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	14 be	advmod
11	else	else	ADV	_	10 where	advmod
12	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 be	aux
13	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 be	nsubj
14	be	be	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 here	conj
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 here	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	we	still	here property	tree rules
2	be		we not said here			tree rules
3	be	would	we			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

Why, we are here in Faery, sure, don't you know

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	5 here	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 here	punct
3	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 here	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 here	cop
5	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	root	root
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 Faery	case
7	Faery	Faery	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 here	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 sure	punct
9	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 Faery	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 here	punct
11	do	do	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	5 here	parataxis
12	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 do	advmod
13	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	14 know	nsubj
14	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 here	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	is	present	we	Faery	here property	tree rules
2	not do	infinitive				vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	know	present	you			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

Option 4

Sure, we are over there

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sure	sure	INTJ	_	6 there	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Sure	punct
3	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 there	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 there	cop
5	over	over	ADV	_	6 there	advmod
6	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	we					over, there property	tree rules

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