Test 6 · ★ · Mabinogion, The Lady of the Fountain, part 51: Owen is hea…

is the earl a total dodgy geezer or what

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · What happens: be · To what, where: earl

This is test 6 · ★ 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	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 earl	cop
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 earl	det
3	earl	earl	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 geezer	csubj
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 geezer	det
5	total	total	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 geezer	amod
6	dodgy	dodgy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 geezer	amod
7	geezer	geezer	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	or	or	CCONJ	_	9 what	cc
9	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 geezer	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		the earl					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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

yeah he nicked her lands cos she said no

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	3 nicked	discourse
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 nicked	nsubj
3	nicked	nick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 lands	nmod:poss
5	lands	land	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 nicked	obj
6	cos	cos	SCONJ	_	8 said	mark
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 said	nsubj
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 nicked	advcl
9	no	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	8 said	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	nick	past	he	her lands					vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent land=Patient
2	say speech: assert	past	she						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent no=Topic

Option 2

yeah he took her gold cos she said no

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	3 took	discourse
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 took	nsubj
3	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 gold	nmod:poss
5	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 took	obj
6	cos	cos	SCONJ	_	8 said	mark
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 said	nsubj
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 took	advcl
9	no	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	8 said	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	past	he	her gold					vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gold=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	she						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent no=Topic

Option 3

yeah he nicked her lands cos she said no and then he kept her castle too

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	3 nicked	discourse
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 nicked	nsubj
3	nicked	nick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 lands	nmod:poss
5	lands	land	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 nicked	obj
6	cos	cos	SCONJ	_	8 said	mark
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 said	nsubj
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 nicked	advcl
9	no	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	8 said	obj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 kept	cc
11	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	13 kept	advmod
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 kept	nsubj
13	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 nicked	conj
14	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 castle	nmod:poss
15	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 kept	obj
16	too	too	ADV	_	13 kept	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	nick	past	he	her lands		vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent land=Patient
2	say speech: assert	past	she			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent no=Topic
3	keep	past	he	her castle	then	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent castle=Theme

Option 4

yeah he nicked her lands and two earldoms cos she wouldn't marry him, proper rotten

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	3 nicked	discourse
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 nicked	nsubj
3	nicked	nick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 lands	nmod:poss
5	lands	land	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 nicked	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 earldoms	cc
7	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 earldoms	nummod
8	earldoms	earldom	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 lands	conj
9	cos	cos	SCONJ	_	13 marry	mark
10	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 marry	nsubj
11	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 marry	aux
12	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 marry	advmod
13	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 nicked	advcl
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 marry	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 nicked	punct
16	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 rotten	amod
17	rotten	rotten	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 nicked	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	nick	past	he	her lands and two earldoms					vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent land=Patient
2	not marry	would	she	him = he					vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient

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