Test 4 · ★ · World Tales, How Geirald The Coward Was Punished, part 1:…

so Geirald was a total wuss on the mountain?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Geirald · What happens: be · To what, where: total wuss, mountain

This is test 4 · ★ 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	_	2 Geirald	advmod
2	Geirald	Geirald	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 wuss	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 wuss	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 wuss	det
5	total	total	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 wuss	amod
6	wuss	wuss	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	on	on	ADP	_	9 mountain	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 mountain	det
9	mountain	mountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 wuss	nmod
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 wuss	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	Geirald	a total wuss		the mountain			tree rules

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

yeah, he wanted to run

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 wanted	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 wanted	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 wanted	nsubj
4	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 run	mark
6	run	run	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 wanted	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	he						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	run not said to happen	to-infinitive	he not said here						vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

yeah, he wanted to bolt

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 wanted	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 wanted	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 wanted	nsubj
4	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 bolt	mark
6	bolt	bolt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 wanted	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	he						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	bolt not said to happen	to-infinitive	he not said here						vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

no, he stayed calm and pulled his sword out first

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	no	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 stayed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 no	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 stayed	nsubj
4	stayed	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	calm	calm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 stayed	xcomp
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 pulled	cc
7	pulled	pull	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 stayed	conj
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 sword	nmod:poss
9	sword	sword	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 pulled	obj
10	out	out	ADP	_	7 pulled	compound:prt
11	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	7 pulled	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stay	past	he					calm property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	pull out	past	he not said here	his sword				first property	tree rules

Option 4

nah, he just stood still

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 stood	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 stood	nsubj
4	just	just	ADV	_	5 stood	advmod
5	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	still	still	ADV	_	5 stood	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stand	past	he				still		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=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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