Test 13 · ★ · Celtic Fairy Tales, The Winning of Olwen, part 1: a queen'…

Did the queen actually say she'd never get up again, like for real?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: she · What happens: do, say, not get up · To what, where: queen · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 1337 «Celtic Fairy Tales, The Winning of Olwen, part 1: a queen's grave, a forgetful king, and a prophecy about Olwen» 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	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 queen	det
3	queen	queen	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Did	obj
4	actually	actually	ADV	_	5 say	advmod
5	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Did	advcl
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 get	nsubj
7	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 get	aux
8	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	9 get	advmod
9	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 say	ccomp
10	up	up	ADP	_	9 get	compound:prt
11	again	again	ADV	_	9 get	advmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 real	punct
13	like	like	ADP	_	15 real	case
14	for	for	ADP	_	15 real	case
15	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 get	conj
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	do	past		the queen			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent queen=Eventuality
2	say speech: assert	present				actually property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	not get up	would	she		again		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

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

Yeah, she said she'd die soon

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 said	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 said	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 die	nsubj
6	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 die	aux
7	die	die	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 said	ccomp
8	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	7 die	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	she						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	die	would	she					soon property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

Option 2

Yeah, she said she'd never get up again, she was proper done in

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 said	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 said	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 get	nsubj
6	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 get	aux
7	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	8 get	advmod
8	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 said	ccomp
9	up	up	ADP	_	8 get	compound:prt
10	again	again	ADV	_	8 get	advmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 done	punct
12	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 done	nsubj
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 done	aux:pass
14	proper	properly	ADV	_	15 done	advmod
15	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 said	conj
16	in	in	ADP	_	15 done	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	she				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	not get up	would	she		again		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
3	do in	past · passive		she		properly property	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality

Option 3

Nah, she said she'd never stand again, she knew she was going to die

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 said	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 stand	nsubj
6	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 stand	aux
7	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	8 stand	advmod
8	stand	stand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 said	ccomp
9	again	again	ADV	_	8 stand	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 knew	punct
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 knew	nsubj
12	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 said	conj
13	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 going	nsubj
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 going	aux
15	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 knew	ccomp
16	to	to	PART	_	17 die	mark
17	die	die	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 going	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	she		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	not stand	would	she	again	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	know	past	she		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	go	past · progressive	she		vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	die	to-infinitive	she not said here		vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Never again shall I rise from this bed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	2 again	advmod
2	again	again	ADV	_	5 rise	advmod
3	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 rise	aux
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 rise	nsubj
5	rise	rise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	from	from	ADP	_	8 bed	case
7	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	8 bed	det
8	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 rise	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	rise	shall	I			this bed	again		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from bed=Initial_Location

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