Test 11 · ★ · Eastern Stories and Legends, Nur Mahomed, part 55: the old…

So did the king just like him or what?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: do · To what, where: king

This is test 11 · ★ 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	So	so	ADV	_	2 did	advmod
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 king	det
4	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 did	obj
5	just	just	ADV	_	7 him	advmod
6	like	like	ADP	_	7 him	case
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 did	obl
8	or	or	CCONJ	_	9 what	cc
9	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	2 did	parataxis
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

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

Nah, not at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 all	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 all	advmod
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 all	case
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Yeah, he loved him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	love	past	he	him = he					vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus

Option 3

Yeah, he liked him but kept it secret

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 liked	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 liked	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 liked	nsubj
4	liked	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 liked	obj
6	but	but	CCONJ	_	7 kept	cc
7	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 liked	conj
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 kept	obj
9	secret	secret	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 kept	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	like	past	he	him = he					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot he=Theme
2	keep	past	he not said here	it				secret property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Nah, he hated him but couldn't say so

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 hated	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 hated	nsubj
4	hated	hate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 hated	obj
6	but	but	CCONJ	_	9 say	cc
7	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 say	aux
8	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 say	advmod
9	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 hated	conj
10	so	so	ADV	_	9 say	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hate	past	he	him = he					vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus
2	not say speech: assert	could	he not said here						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

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