Test 12 · ★ · Celtic Fairy Tales, The Sword of Light, part 14: the king…

why does the sword's knob matter, like, is it just a random thing?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: matter, sword · What happens: do, be, matter · To what, where: knob matter

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 1289 «Celtic Fairy Tales, The Sword of Light, part 14: the king loses the last game and rides off to steal the sword» 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	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	2 does	advmod
2	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 sword	det
4	sword	sword	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 matter	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 sword	case
6	knob	knob	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 matter	compound
7	matter	matter	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 does	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 thing	punct
9	like	like	ADP	_	16 thing	case
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 like	punct
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 thing	cop
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 thing	nsubj
13	just	just	ADV	_	16 thing	advmod
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 thing	det
15	random	random	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 thing	amod
16	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 does	parataxis
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 does	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	do	present		the sword's knob matter		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent matter=Eventuality
2	is	present	matter		like a random thing	tree rules
3	matter		the sword			nom matter «cognition intransitive»: poss=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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

it lets you pull the blade out quietly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 lets	nsubj
2	lets	let	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 lets	obj
4	pull	pull	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 lets	xcomp
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 blade	det
6	blade	blade	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 pull	obj
7	out	out	ADP	_	4 pull	compound:prt
8	quietly	quietly	ADV	_	4 pull	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	let	present	it	you					tree rules
2	pull out	infinitive	you not said here	the blade				quietly property	tree rules

Option 2

it's a lucky coin

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 coin	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 coin	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 coin	det
4	lucky	lucky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 coin	amod
5	coin	coin	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	it	a lucky coin					tree rules

Option 3

it opens the window

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 opens	nsubj
2	opens	open	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 window	det
4	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 opens	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	open	present	it	the window					vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location window=Theme

Option 4

it's a secret map

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 map	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 map	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 map	det
4	secret	secret	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 map	amod
5	map	map	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	it	a secret map					tree rules

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