Test 13 · ★ · pg3282, Rosald and Geirald, part 21: Rosald slays the gian…

So was Geirald the one who killed the giant, then?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Geirald one · What happens: be, kill · To what, where: Geirald one

This is test 13 · ★ 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	So	so	ADV	_	5 one	advmod
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 one	cop
3	Geirald	Geirald	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 one	compound
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 one	det
5	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 killed	nsubj
7	killed	kill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 one	acl:relcl
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 giant	det
9	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 killed	xcomp
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 giant	punct
11	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 killed	advmod
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 one	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the Geirald one					tree rules
2	kill	past	the Geirald one				then	giant property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

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

Yeah, he did

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 did	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	he						vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Nah, the king's man struck it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	7 struck	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 king	det
4	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 man	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 king	case
6	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 struck	nsubj
7	struck	strike	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 struck	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	strike	past	the king's man	it					vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Nah, Rosald did it, not him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 did	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	Rosald	Rosald	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 did	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 him	punct
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 him	advmod
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 did	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	Rosald	it					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality

Option 4

Yeah, he slew the beast

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 slew	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 slew	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 slew	nsubj
4	slew	slay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 beast	det
6	beast	beast	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 slew	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	slay	past	he	the beast					vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beast=Patient

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