Test 12 · ★ · Mabinogion, The Lady of the Fountain, part 51: Owen is hea…

did the countess think the armour would help owen, or was she just mucking about

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: countess, armour · What happens: think, help, muck about · To what, where: owen · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 1326 «Mabinogion, The Lady of the Fountain, part 51: Owen is healed by a widowed countess and rides out to fight the earl who wants her lands» 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 think	aux
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 countess	det
3	countess	countess	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 think	nsubj
4	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 armour	det
6	armour	armour	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 help	nsubj
7	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 help	aux
8	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 think	ccomp
9	owen	owen	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 help	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 mucking	punct
11	or	or	CCONJ	_	15 mucking	cc
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 mucking	aux
13	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 mucking	nsubj
14	just	just	ADV	_	15 mucking	advmod
15	mucking	muck	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 think	advcl
16	about	about	ADV	_	15 mucking	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past · do-support	the countess			vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	help	would	the armour	owen		vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent owen=Beneficiary
3	muck about	past · progressive	armour		about property	tree rules

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

she was just being nice, she was joking

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 nice	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 nice	cop
3	just	just	ADV	_	5 nice	advmod
4	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 nice	cop
5	nice	nice	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 joking	punct
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 joking	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 joking	aux
9	joking	joke	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 nice	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	she					nice property	tree rules
2	joke speech: other	past · progressive	she						vn chit_chat-37.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

she thought it might save her people, she was dead serious

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 thought	nsubj
2	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 save	nsubj
4	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 save	aux
5	save	save	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 thought	ccomp
6	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 save	obj
7	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 save	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 serious	punct
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 serious	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 serious	cop
11	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 serious	amod
12	serious	serious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 thought	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	she				vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	save	might	it	people	her = she		vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent she=Beneficiary people=Theme
3	is	past	she			serious property	tree rules

Option 3

she thought it was a gift, she was dead serious

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 thought	nsubj
2	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 gift	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 gift	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 gift	det
6	gift	gift	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 thought	ccomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 serious	punct
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 serious	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 serious	cop
10	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 serious	amod
11	serious	serious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 thought	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	she			vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is a	past	it	a gift		tree rules
3	is	past	she		serious property	tree rules

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

she thought it might save her people from the earl, she was dead serious about it all

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 thought	nsubj
2	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 save	nsubj
4	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 save	aux
5	save	save	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 thought	ccomp
6	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 save	obj
7	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 save	obj
8	from	from	ADP	_	10 earl	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 earl	det
10	earl	earl	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 save	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 serious	punct
12	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 serious	nsubj
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 serious	cop
14	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 serious	amod
15	serious	serious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 thought	conj
16	about	about	ADP	_	17 it	case
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 serious	obl
18	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	17 it	det

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	she					vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	save	might	it	people	her = she	the earl		vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent she=Beneficiary people=Theme
3	is	past	she				about earl; serious property	tree rules

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