Test 2 · ★ · pg3282, Rosald and Geirald, part 21: Rosald slays the gian…

Bruv, why did Geirald want to bolt?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Geirald · What happens: want, bolt

This is test 2 · ★ 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	Bruv	Bruv	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 want	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Bruv	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	6 want	advmod
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 want	aux
5	Geirald	Geirald	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 want	nsubj
6	want	want	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 bolt	mark
8	bolt	bolt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 want	xcomp
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 want	punct

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

He reckoned the king was a div

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	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 king	det
4	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 div	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 div	cop
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 div	det
7	div	div	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 reckoned	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	reckon	past	He						vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
2	is a	past	the king	a div					tree rules

Option 2

He was dead scared the knights would batter him senseless, bruv, no joke

The tree, 13 words

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 scared	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 scared	cop
3	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 scared	amod
4	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 knights	det
6	knights	knight	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 batter	nsubj
7	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 batter	aux
8	batter	batter	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 scared	ccomp
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 batter	obj
10	senseless	senseless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 batter	xcomp
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 bruv	punct
12	bruv	bruv	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 scared	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 joke	punct
14	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	15 joke	det
15	joke	joke	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 scared	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	He					scared property	tree rules
2	batter	would	the knights	him = he				senseless property	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent he=Instrument

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

He was dead scared of the fight, fam

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 scared	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 scared	cop
3	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 scared	amod
4	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 fight	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 fight	det
7	fight	fight	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 scared	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 fam	punct
9	fam	fam	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 fight	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	He					of the fight and fam; scared property	tree rules

Option 4

He was dead scared of the fight and the whole crowd watching, fam

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 scared	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 scared	cop
3	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 scared	amod
4	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 fight	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 fight	det
7	fight	fight	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 scared	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 crowd	cc
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 crowd	det
10	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 crowd	amod
11	crowd	crowd	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 fight	conj
12	watching	watch	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 crowd	acl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 fam	punct
14	fam	fam	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 fight	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	He					of the fight and the whole crowd and fam; scared property	tree rules
2	watch	gerund	the whole crowd not said here						vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: 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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