Test 12 · ★ · World Tales, How Geirald The Coward Was Punished, part 1:…
so what did the king want them to do to stay?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: king, them · What happens: do, want, stay · To what, where: them
This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 1219 «World Tales, How Geirald The Coward Was Punished, part 1: two friends ride off, Rosald wins the fight, and Geirald takes the glory» 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 | so | so | ADV | _ | 3 did | advmod |
| 2 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 did | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 king | det |
| 5 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 want | nsubj |
| 6 | want | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 did | ccomp |
| 7 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 want | obj |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 do | mark |
| 9 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 want | xcomp |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 stay | mark |
| 11 | stay | stay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 do | advcl |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | want | present | the king | them = they | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | do not said to happen | to-infinitive | them = they not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | stay | to-infinitive | them = they not said here | vn exist-47.1 «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
prove their fresh courage
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | prove | prove | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 courage | nmod:poss |
| 3 | fresh | fresh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 courage | amod |
| 4 | courage | courage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 prove | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | prove | imperative | you not said here | their fresh courage | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent courage=Theme |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
show some fresh courage
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | show | show | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 4 courage | det |
| 3 | fresh | fresh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 courage | amod |
| 4 | courage | courage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 show | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | show | imperative | you not said here | some fresh courage | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent courage=Recipient |
Option 3
show a new bravery
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | show | show | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 bravery | det |
| 3 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 bravery | amod |
| 4 | bravery | bravery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 show | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | show | imperative | you not said here | a new bravery | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent bravery=Recipient |
Option 4
show some fresh courage by fighting the robber band
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | show | show | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 4 courage | det |
| 3 | fresh | fresh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 courage | amod |
| 4 | courage | courage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 show | obj |
| 5 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 6 fighting | mark |
| 6 | fighting | fight | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 1 show | advcl |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 band | det |
| 8 | robber | robber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 band | compound |
| 9 | band | band | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 fighting | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | show | imperative | you not said here | some fresh courage | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent courage=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | fight | gerund | you not said here | the robber band | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent band=Co-Agent |
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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