Test 8 · ★ · World Tales, How Geirald The Coward Was Punished, part 1:…

what did Rosald's mum tell him before he left?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: mum, Rosald · What happens: do, tell, leave · To what, where: Rosald · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 8 · ★ 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	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	2 did	nsubj
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	Rosald	Rosald	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 mum	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 Rosald	case
5	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 tell	nsubj
6	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 did	ccomp
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 tell	iobj
8	before	before	SCONJ	_	10 left	mark
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 left	nsubj
10	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 tell	ccomp
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	roles by
1	do	past			tree rules
2	tell speech: assert	present	Rosald's mum	Rosald	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
3	leave	past	Rosald		vn escape-51.1-1-1 «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

be brave

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	be	be	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	brave	brave	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 be	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	imperative	you not said here					brave property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

don't betray your mate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 betray	aux
2	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	3 betray	advmod
3	betray	betray	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 mate	nmod:poss
5	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 betray	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not betray	imperative · do-support	you not said here	your mate					tree rules

Option 3

stay home

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	stay	stay	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	home	home	ADV	_	1 stay	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stay	imperative	you not said here					home property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

never leave your lord

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	2 leave	advmod
2	leave	leave	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 lord	nmod:poss
4	lord	lord	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 leave	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not leave	imperative	you not said here	your lord					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lord=Theme

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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