Test 8 · ★ · pg3282, Rosald and Geirald, part 21: Rosald slays the gian…

Did Rosald really try his best in the second fight?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Rosald · What happens: try · To what, where: best

This is test 8 · ★ 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	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 try	aux
2	Rosald	Rosald	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 try	nsubj
3	really	really	ADV	_	4 try	advmod
4	try	try	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 best	nmod:poss
6	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	4 try	obj
7	in	in	ADP	_	10 fight	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 fight	det
9	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	10 fight	amod
10	fight	fight	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 best	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 try	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	try	past · do-support	Rosald	Rosald's best					vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent good=Eventuality

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

Yeah, he fought his hardest but then went easy on purpose, cheeky

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 fought	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 fought	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 fought	nsubj
4	fought	fight	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 hardest	nmod:poss
6	hardest	hard	ADJ	Degree=Sup	4 fought	obj
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	9 went	cc
8	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	9 went	advmod
9	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 fought	conj
10	easy	easy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 went	xcomp
11	on	on	ADP	_	12 purpose	case
12	purpose	purpose	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 went	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 cheeky	punct
14	cheeky	cheeky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 fought	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fight	past	he	his hardest					vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hard=Co-Agent
2	go	past	he not said here			purpose	then	easy property	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on purpose=Location

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Nah, he went easy on purpose

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 went	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 went	nsubj
4	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	easy	easy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 went	xcomp
6	on	on	ADP	_	7 purpose	case
7	purpose	purpose	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 went	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	he			purpose		easy property	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on purpose=Location

Option 3

Yeah, he fought hard, mate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 fought	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 fought	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 fought	nsubj
4	fought	fight	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 fought	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 mate	punct
7	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fought	vocative

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fight	past	he					mate vocative; hard property	vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Nah, he went easy on purpose so the other lad could win

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 went	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 went	nsubj
4	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	easy	easy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 went	xcomp
6	on	on	ADP	_	7 purpose	case
7	purpose	purpose	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 went	obl
8	so	so	SCONJ	_	13 win	mark
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 lad	det
10	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 lad	amod
11	lad	lad	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 win	nsubj
12	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 win	aux
13	win	win	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 went	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	he			purpose		easy property	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on purpose=Location
2	win	could	the other lad						vn succeed-74-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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