Test 2 · ★ · Grimm, Trusty John, part 69: the King sees the golden pict…

bruh so trusty john is literally the goat, right?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: trusty john · What happens: be · To what, where: goat

This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 1482 «Grimm, Trusty John, part 69: the King sees the golden picture, and the ship sails off with the Princess» 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	bruh	bruh	INTJ	_	8 goat	discourse
2	so	so	ADV	_	8 goat	advmod
3	trusty	trusty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 john	amod
4	john	john	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 goat	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 goat	cop
6	literally	literally	ADV	_	8 goat	advmod
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 goat	det
8	goat	goat	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 goat	punct
10	right	right	INTJ	_	8 goat	discourse
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 goat	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	trusty john	the goat				literally property	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

fr, he's loyal but kinda dumb about it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	fr	fr	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 loyal	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 fr	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 loyal	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 loyal	cop
5	loyal	loyal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	but	but	CCONJ	_	8 dumb	cc
7	kinda	kinda	ADV	_	8 dumb	advmod
8	dumb	dumb	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 loyal	conj
9	about	about	ADP	_	10 it	case
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 dumb	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	fr					loyal property	tree rules
2	be		fr not said here					about fr; kinda property	tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

fr, he kept his promise even if it cost him his life

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	fr	fr	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 kept	obl:unmarked
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 fr	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 kept	nsubj
4	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 promise	nmod:poss
6	promise	promise	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 kept	obj
7	even	even	ADV	_	10 cost	advmod
8	if	if	SCONJ	_	10 cost	mark
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 cost	nsubj
10	cost	cost	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 kept	advcl
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 cost	iobj
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 life	nmod:poss
13	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 cost	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	keep	past	he	fr		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent promise=Theme
2	cost a condition, not said to happen	past	promise	his life	him = he	vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Theme he=Beneficiary life=Value
3	promise		his = he			nom promise «communication transitive»: poss=agent

Option 3

fr, he kept the promise to the old King even though the young one begged him non-stop for ages

The tree, 19 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	fr	fr	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 kept	obl:unmarked
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 fr	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 kept	nsubj
4	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 promise	det
6	promise	promise	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 kept	obj
7	to	to	ADP	_	10 King	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 King	det
9	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 King	amod
10	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 kept	obl
11	even	even	ADV	_	16 begged	advmod
12	though	though	SCONJ	_	16 begged	mark
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 one	det
14	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 one	amod
15	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 begged	nsubj
16	begged	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 kept	advcl
17	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 begged	obj
18	non-stop	non-stop	ADV	_	16 begged	advmod
19	for	for	ADP	_	20 ages	case
20	ages	age	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 begged	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	past	he	fr				to the old King	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent promise=Theme
2	beg speech: request	past	the young one		King		for ages	non-stop property	vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent he=Recipient for age=Topic

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

nah, he just did what the King told him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 did	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 did	nsubj
4	just	just	ADV	_	5 did	advmod
5	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	9 told	obj
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 King	det
8	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 told	nsubj
9	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 did	advcl
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 told	iobj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	he						vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	tell speech: assert	past	the King		him = he				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient what=Topic

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