Test 5 · ★ · Gods and Fighting Men, Mongan's Frenzy, part 39: Mongan tr…

Yo, what's the boon she put on the king?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: boon, she · What happens: be, put · To what, where: boon

This is test 5 · ★ 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	Yo	yo	INTJ	_	3 what	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yo	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 what	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 boon	det
6	boon	boon	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 what	nsubj
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 put	nsubj
8	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 boon	acl:relcl
9	on	on	ADP	_	11 king	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 king	det
11	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 put	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 what	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the boon						tree rules
2	put	past	she	the boon not said here				on the king	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent boon=Theme on king=Destination

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

He can't sit in her chair, innit

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 sit	nsubj
2	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 sit	aux
3	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 sit	advmod
4	sit	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 chair	case
6	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 chair	nmod:poss
7	chair	chair	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sit	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 innit	punct
9	innit	innit	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 chair	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not sit	can	He			her chair and innit			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in chair=Location

Option 2

Nah, just cows

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 cows	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	just	just	ADV	_	4 cows	advmod
4	cows	cow	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

He gotta give her a horse, innit

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 give	nsubj
2	gotta	gotta	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 give	aux
3	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 give	iobj
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 horse	det
6	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 give	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 innit	punct
8	innit	innit	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 horse	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give		He	a horse and innit	her = she				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient horse=Theme

Option 4

He can't sit, innit

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 sit	nsubj
2	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 sit	aux
3	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 sit	advmod
4	sit	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 innit	punct
6	innit	innit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 sit	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not sit	can	He						vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	innit	infinitive	He not said here						tree rules

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