Test 2 · ★ · Eastern Stories and Legends, Nur Mahomed, part 55: the old…

Bro, why did the king's men grab him for talking big?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: Bro, men · What happens: do, grab, talk · To what, where: Bro

This is test 2 · ★ 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	Bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 why	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	1 Bro	acl:relcl
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 king	det
6	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 men	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 king	case
8	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 grab	nsubj
9	grab	grab	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 did	parataxis
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 grab	obj
11	for	for	SCONJ	_	12 talking	mark
12	talking	talk	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 grab	advcl
13	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 talking	xcomp
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	do	past	Bro			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	grab	present	the king's men	Bro		vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
3	talk	gerund	the king's men not said here		big property	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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

Cos the pedlar ran to the palace guards

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cos	cos	SCONJ	_	3 pedlar	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 pedlar	det
3	pedlar	pedlar	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 ran	obl
4	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	8 guards	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 guards	det
7	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 guards	compound
8	guards	guard	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 ran	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run	past						cos the pedlar; to the palace guards result	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to guard=Result

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Cos the pedlar got scared and told the king

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cos	cos	SCONJ	_	4 got	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 pedlar	det
3	pedlar	pedlar	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 got	nsubj
4	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 got	xcomp
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 told	cc
7	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 got	conj
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 king	det
9	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 told	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	past	the pedlar					scared property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
2	tell speech: assert	past	the pedlar not said here		the king				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent king=Recipient

Option 3

Cos he talked back

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cos	cos	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 talked	nsubj
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 talked	nsubj
3	talked	talk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	back	back	ADV	_	3 talked	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	talk back	past	Cos						vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Cos he was rude

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cos	cos	SCONJ	_	4 rude	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 rude	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 rude	cop
4	rude	rude	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	he					rude property	tree rules

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