Test 8 · ★ · Gods and Fighting Men, Mongan's Frenzy, part 39: Mongan tr…
Mate, did Duv Laca say honour beats life?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: Mate, Duv, honour · What happens: do, say, beat · To what, where: life · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 8 · ★ 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 | Mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 did | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Mate | punct |
| 3 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | Duv | Duv | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 say | nsubj |
| 5 | Laca | Laca | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Duv | flat |
| 6 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 did | parataxis |
| 7 | honour | honour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 beats | nsubj |
| 8 | beats | beat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 say | ccomp |
| 9 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 beats | obj |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | Mate | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | present | Duv | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | beat | present | honour | life | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location life=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
Nah, life beats honour every time
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 5 honour | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 beats | compound |
| 4 | beats | beat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 honour | nsubj |
| 5 | honour | honour | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 time | det |
| 7 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 honour | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | honour | present | life beats | time | tree rules |
Option 2
Yeah, honour's grand
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 5 grand | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yeah | punct |
| 3 | honour | honour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 grand | nmod:poss |
| 4 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 3 honour | case |
| 5 | grand | grand | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Yeah, honour's worth more than gold
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 5 worth | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 worth | punct |
| 3 | honour | honour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 worth | nmod:poss |
| 4 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 3 honour | case |
| 5 | worth | worth | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 5 worth | amod |
| 7 | than | than | ADP | _ | 8 gold | case |
| 8 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 more | obl |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Yeah, honour is longer than life
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 5 longer | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 longer | punct |
| 3 | honour | honour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 longer | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 longer | cop |
| 5 | longer | long | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 6 | than | than | ADP | _ | 7 life | case |
| 7 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 longer | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | honour | than life; long property | tree rules |
Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.
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