Test 10 · ★ · Eastern Stories and Legends, Nur Mahomed, part 55: the old…

Wasn't the old lady going to lose her son for real?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: old lady · What happens: not be, go, lose · To what, where: old lady, son

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1254 «Eastern Stories and Legends, Nur Mahomed, part 55: the old woman's foundling becomes a soldier, and a dog dies after a meal» 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	Was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 lady	cop
2	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 lady	advmod
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 lady	det
4	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 lady	amod
5	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	going	go	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 lady	acl
7	to	to	PART	_	8 lose	mark
8	lose	lose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 going	xcomp
9	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 son	nmod:poss
10	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 lose	obj
11	for	for	ADP	_	12 real	case
12	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 lose	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 lady	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not is a	past		the old lady		tree rules
2	go	gerund	the old lady not said here			vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	lose	to-infinitive	the old lady not said here	her son	for real	vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=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 · ✓ the right answer

Nah, the king paid her a pension

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 paid	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 king	det
4	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 paid	nsubj
5	paid	pay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 paid	obj
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 pension	det
8	pension	pension	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 paid	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pay	past	the king		her = she				vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient pension=Asset

Option 2

Yeah, but the king pardoned him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 pardoned	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 pardoned	punct
3	but	but	CCONJ	_	6 pardoned	cc
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 king	det
5	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 pardoned	nsubj
6	pardoned	pardon	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 pardoned	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pardon	past	the king	him = he					vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme

Option 3

Nah, the king let him go, but he sent the old woman away from the city forever

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 let	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 king	det
4	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 let	nsubj
5	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 let	obj
7	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 let	xcomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 sent	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	11 sent	cc
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 sent	nsubj
11	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 let	parataxis
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 woman	det
13	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 woman	amod
14	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 sent	obj
15	away	away	ADV	_	11 sent	advmod
16	from	from	ADP	_	18 city	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 city	det
18	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 away	obl
19	forever	forever	ADV	_	5 let	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	let	infinitive	the king	him = he	forever property	tree rules
2	go	infinitive	him = he not said here			vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	send	past	king	the old woman	away property	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent woman=Theme

Option 4

Nah, the king gave her a house

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 gave	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 king	det
4	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 gave	nsubj
5	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 gave	iobj
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 house	det
8	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 gave	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	past	the king	a house	her = she				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient house=Theme

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/1254-pg3282-part55/t10/