Test 11 · ★ · Popular Tales from the Norse, The Master-maid: the bailiff…

So the King went to fetch her himself, yeah?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: King · What happens: go, fetch · To what, where: King, her

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 1445 «Popular Tales from the Norse, The Master-maid: the bailiff is tricked into chasing a calf all night, and at last the wedding is held» 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	So	so	ADV	_	4 went	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 King	det
3	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 went	nsubj
4	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 fetch	mark
6	fetch	fetch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 went	xcomp
7	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 fetch	obj
8	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	6 fetch	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 went	punct
10	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 went	discourse
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 went	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	the King						vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	fetch	to-infinitive	the King not said here	King	her = she				vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent she=Beneficiary himself=Theme

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

Nah, he sent the messengers back and stayed home in bed all day

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 sent	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 sent	nsubj
4	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 messengers	det
6	messengers	messenger	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 sent	obj
7	back	back	ADV	_	4 sent	advmod
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 stayed	cc
9	stayed	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 sent	conj
10	home	home	ADV	_	9 stayed	advmod
11	in	in	ADP	_	12 bed	case
12	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 stayed	obl
13	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	14 day	det
14	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 stayed	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	send back	past	he	the messengers					vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent messenger=Theme
2	stay	past	he not said here			bed	day	home property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in bed=Location

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Nope, he sent a man

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nope	nope	INTJ	_	4 sent	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nope	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 sent	nsubj
4	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 man	det
6	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sent	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	send	past	he	a man					vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Yep, he had to, innit

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yep	yep	INTJ	_	4 had	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yep	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 had	nsubj
4	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	4 had	xcomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 innit	punct
7	innit	innit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 had	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	he						tree rules
2	innit	infinitive	he not said here						tree rules

Option 4

Yep, he had to go himself, no one else would do it, innit

The tree, 13 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yep	yep	INTJ	_	4 had	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yep	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 had	nsubj
4	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 go	mark
6	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 had	xcomp
7	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	6 go	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 do	punct
9	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	10 one	det
10	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 do	nsubj
11	else	else	ADV	_	10 one	advmod
12	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 do	aux
13	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 go	conj
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 do	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 innit	punct
16	innit	innit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 go	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	have	past	he		tree rules
2	go	to-infinitive	he not said here	himself = he	vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location himself=Theme
3	do	would	no one	it	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality
4	innit	infinitive	he not said here		tree rules

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