Test 12 · ★ · Finnish Tales, The Water-Lily Maiden, part 42: the Prince…

Why does the Prince finally just go for it, then?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Prince · What happens: go

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 1455 «Finnish Tales, The Water-Lily Maiden, part 42: the Prince dives into the river as a crab» 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	7 go	advmod
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 go	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Prince	det
4	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 go	nsubj
5	finally	finally	ADV	_	7 go	advmod
6	just	just	ADV	_	7 go	advmod
7	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	for	for	ADP	_	9 it	case
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 go	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 go	punct
11	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 go	advmod
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 go	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	present · do-support	the Prince				then	for it; finally property	vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for it=Beneficiary

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

Cos the swallows told him the maiden was gone and there's no point living now, so he's off, mate

The tree, 21 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cos	cos	SCONJ	_	3 swallows	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 swallows	det
3	swallows	swallow	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 told	obl
4	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 told	iobj
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 maiden	det
7	maiden	maiden	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 gone	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 gone	cop
9	gone	gone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 told	ccomp
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 's	cc
11	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	12 's	expl
12	's	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 gone	parataxis
13	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	14 point	det
14	point	point	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 's	nsubj
15	living	live	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	14 point	acl
16	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	15 living	advmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 off	punct
18	so	so	ADV	_	21 off	advmod
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 off	nsubj
20	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 off	cop
21	off	off	ADP	_	4 told	compound:prt
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 mate	punct
23	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 told	vocative

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell off speech: assert	past		him = he			cos the swallows; mate vocative	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
2	is	past	the maiden				gone property	tree rules
3	be	present	no point		there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	live	gerund	no point not said here			now		vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Cos death beats endless sadness, bruv

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cos	cos	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 death	amod
2	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 beats	nsubj
3	beats	beat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	endless	endless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 sadness	amod
5	sadness	sadness	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 beats	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 bruv	punct
7	bruv	bruv	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sadness	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	beat	present	Cos death	endless sadness and bruv					vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location sadness=Theme

Option 3

Cos he reckons dying is better than being sad forever, and he can't stand it any more, bruv, innit

The tree, 20 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cos	cos	SCONJ	_	3 reckons	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 reckons	nsubj
3	reckons	reckon	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 stand	advcl
4	dying	die	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 better	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 better	cop
6	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 reckons	ccomp
7	than	than	ADP	_	9 sad	case
8	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 sad	cop
9	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 better	conj
10	forever	forever	ADV	_	9 sad	advmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 stand	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 stand	cc
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 stand	nsubj
14	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 stand	aux
15	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	16 stand	advmod
16	stand	stand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 stand	obj
18	any	any	ADV	_	19 more	advmod
19	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	16 stand	advmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 bruv	punct
21	bruv	bruv	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 stand	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 innit	punct
23	innit	innit	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 bruv	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	reckon	present	he			vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
2	die	gerund				vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
3	is	present			good property	tree rules
4	is	gerund			forever, sad property	tree rules
5	not stand	can	he	it	bruv and innit obl	vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus

Option 4

Cos he got fed up of waiting, mate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cos	cos	SCONJ	_	4 fed	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 fed	nsubj
3	got	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 fed	aux:pass
4	fed	feed	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 mate	advcl
5	up	up	ADP	ExtPos=ADV	7 waiting	advmod
6	of	of	ADP	_	5 up	fixed
7	waiting	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 fed	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 fed	punct
9	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	feed up	past · passive		he					vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: subject=Recipient
2	wait	gerund							vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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