Test 5 · ★ · Project Gutenberg pg503, Princess Miranda, part 51: the Ki…

What did Tintin say about being a good dog, lol?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: Tintin · What happens: say, be · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 1464 «Project Gutenberg pg503, Princess Miranda, part 51: the King orders Miranda killed, and her faithful animals die for her» 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 say	obj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 say	aux
3	Tintin	Tintin	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 say	nsubj
4	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	about	about	ADP	_	9 dog	case
6	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 dog	cop
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 dog	det
8	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 dog	amod
9	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 say	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 say	punct
11	lol	lol	INTJ	_	4 say	discourse
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 say	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past · do-support	Tintin						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic
2	is	gerund						about a good dog	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

he would run away home

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 run	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 run	aux
3	run	run	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	away	away	ADV	_	3 run	advmod
5	home	home	ADV	_	3 run	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run away	would	he					away, home property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

he could not let her die

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 let	nsubj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 let	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 let	advmod
4	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 let	obj
6	die	die	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 let	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not let	could	he	her = she					tree rules
2	die	infinitive	her = she not said here						vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

Option 3

he could not let her die alone in the forest

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 let	nsubj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 let	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 let	advmod
4	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 let	obj
6	die	die	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 let	xcomp
7	alone	alone	ADV	_	6 die	advmod
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 forest	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 forest	det
10	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 die	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not let	could	he	her = she					tree rules
2	die	infinitive	her = she not said here					in the forest; alone property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in forest=Attribute

Option 4

he had sworn to guard the King's daughter forever

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 sworn	nsubj
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sworn	aux
3	sworn	swear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 guard	mark
5	guard	guard	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 sworn	advcl
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 King	det
7	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 daughter	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 King	case
9	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 guard	obj
10	forever	forever	ADV	_	5 guard	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	swear	past · perfect	he						vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	guard	to-infinitive	he not said here		the King's daughter			forever property	vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Beneficiary

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