Test 3 · ★ · pg3282, Rosald and Geirald, part 21: Rosald slays the gian…

Did the giant really have fifty knights' worth of kills?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: do, have · To what, where: giant, worth

This is test 3 · ★ 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	Did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 giant	det
3	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Did	obj
4	really	really	ADV	_	5 have	advmod
5	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Did	advcl
6	fifty	fifty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 knights	nummod
7	knights	knight	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 worth	nmod:poss
8	'	's	PART	_	7 knights	case
9	worth	worth	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 have	obj
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 kills	case
11	kills	kill	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 worth	nmod
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past		the giant					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent giant=Eventuality
2	have	present		fifty knights's worth of kills					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent worth=Patient

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, that's what the king reckoned, but nobody counted them proper

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 what	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 what	punct
3	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 what	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 what	cop
5	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 king	det
7	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 counted	nsubj
8	reckoned	reckon	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 king	acl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 counted	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	12 counted	cc
11	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	12 counted	nsubj
12	counted	count	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 what	acl:relcl
13	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 counted	obj
14	proper	properly	ADV	_	12 counted	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present	that			tree rules
2	reckon	participle		the king not said here		vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
3	count	past	the king	them = they	properly property	vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme

Option 2

Nah, the king just made that up to make the giant sound scary to all

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 made	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 king	det
4	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 made	nsubj
5	just	just	ADV	_	6 made	advmod
6	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 made	obj
8	up	up	ADP	_	6 made	compound:prt
9	to	to	PART	_	10 make	mark
10	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 made	advcl
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 giant	det
12	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 make	obj
13	sound	sound	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 make	xcomp
14	scary	scary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 sound	xcomp
15	to	to	ADP	_	16 all	case
16	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	14 scary	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	make up	past	the king	that		vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme that=Pivot
2	make	to-infinitive	the king not said here	the giant		tree rules
3	sound	infinitive	the giant not said here		scary property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Yeah, the king said so, innit

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 said	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 king	det
4	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	nsubj
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	so	so	ADV	_	5 said	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 innit	punct
8	innit	innit	INTJ	_	5 said	discourse

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the king						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, that's what the king reckoned

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 what	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 what	punct
3	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 what	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 what	cop
5	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 king	det
7	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 what	nsubj
8	reckoned	reckon	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 king	acl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	that						tree rules
2	reckon	participle		the king not said here					vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: 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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1220-pg3282-part21/t3/