Test 11 · ★ · pg3282, Rosald and Geirald, part 21: Rosald slays the gian…
What did Geirald reckon about the honour?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Geirald · What happens: reckon
This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 1220 «pg3282, Rosald and Geirald, part 21: Rosald slays the giant, then fights the tourney in Geirald's clothes, and the queen grows suspicious» 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 | 4 reckon | obj |
| 2 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 reckon | aux |
| 3 | Geirald | Geirald | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 reckon | nsubj |
| 4 | reckon | reckon | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | about | about | ADP | _ | 7 honour | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 honour | det |
| 7 | honour | honour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 reckon | obl |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 reckon | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reckon | past · do-support | Geirald | about the honour | vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent what=Attribute |
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 didn't care, he'd rather be alive
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 care | nsubj |
| 2 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 care | aux |
| 3 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 care | advmod |
| 4 | care | care | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 care | punct |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 alive | nsubj |
| 7 | 'd | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 alive | aux |
| 8 | rather | rather | ADV | _ | 10 alive | advmod |
| 9 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 10 alive | cop |
| 10 | alive | alive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 care | parataxis |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not care | past · do-support | He | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | is | would | he | alive property | tree rules |
Option 2
He'd sooner earn glory, not life
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 | 5 glory | nsubj |
| 2 | 'd | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 glory | aux |
| 3 | sooner | soon | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 5 glory | advmod |
| 4 | earn | earn | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 glory | amod |
| 5 | glory | glory | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 life | punct |
| 7 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 life | advmod |
| 8 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 glory | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice
Honour first
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Honour | honour | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 1 Honour | advmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
He reckoned honour was all that mattered
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 | 2 reckoned | nsubj |
| 2 | reckoned | reckon | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | honour | honour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 reckoned | obj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 all | cop |
| 5 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 honour | appos |
| 6 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 mattered | nsubj |
| 7 | mattered | matter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 honour | acl:relcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reckon | past | He | honour | vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent honour=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | matter | past | honour | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus |
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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