Test 4 · ★ · Gods and Fighting Men, Mongan's Frenzy, part 39: Mongan tr…

Did Mongan's face go red like a bleedin' sunset?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: face · What happens: go

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 1071 «Gods and Fighting Men, Mongan's Frenzy, part 39: Mongan trades cows for 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	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 go	aux
2	Mongan	Mongan	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 face	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 Mongan	case
4	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 go	nsubj
5	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 go	xcomp
7	like	like	ADP	_	11 sunset	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 sunset	det
9	bleedin	bleedin	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 sunset	compound
10	'	'	PUNCT	_	11 sunset	punct
11	sunset	sunset	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 red	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 go	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past · do-support	Mongan's face					red property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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

Nah, pale as snow

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	3 pale	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	pale	pale	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	as	as	ADP	_	5 snow	case
5	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 pale	obl

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, red as a sunset, proper raging

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	3 red	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 red	punct
3	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	as	as	ADP	_	6 sunset	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 sunset	det
6	sunset	sunset	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 red	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 raging	punct
8	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 raging	amod
9	raging	raging	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 red	conj

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3

Yeah, red as a sunset, proper raging, and his ears went even redder after that

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	3 red	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 red	punct
3	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	as	as	ADP	_	6 sunset	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 sunset	det
6	sunset	sunset	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 red	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 raging	punct
8	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 raging	amod
9	raging	raging	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 red	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 went	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 went	cc
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 ears	nmod:poss
13	ears	ear	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 went	nsubj
14	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 red	conj
15	even	even	ADV	_	16 redder	advmod
16	redder	redder	ADV	_	14 went	advmod
17	after	after	ADP	_	18 that	case
18	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	14 went	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	his ears				after that	redder property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

Nah, his face stayed normal, he just laughed it off and poured another cup of wine

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 stayed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 face	nmod:poss
4	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 stayed	nsubj
5	stayed	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	normal	normal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 stayed	xcomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 laughed	punct
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 laughed	nsubj
9	just	just	ADV	_	10 laughed	advmod
10	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 stayed	conj
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 laughed	obj
12	off	off	ADP	_	10 laughed	compound:prt
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 poured	cc
14	poured	pour	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 stayed	conj
15	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	16 cup	det
16	cup	cup	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 poured	obj
17	of	of	ADP	_	18 wine	case
18	wine	wine	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 cup	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	stay	past	his face		normal property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	laugh off	past	face	it		vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
3	pour	past	his face not said here	another cup of wine		vn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cup=Patient

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