Test 10 · ★ · Popular Tales from the Norse, Cinderlad, part 78: three ho…

Bro, what does the King say he'll do next?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: King · What happens: do, say · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1491 «Popular Tales from the Norse, Cinderlad, part 78: three horses caught and a knight on the glass hill» 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	Bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 does	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 does	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 does	nsubj
4	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 King	det
6	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 say	nsubj
7	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 does	ccomp
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 do	nsubj
9	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 do	aux
10	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 say	ccomp
11	next	next	ADV	_	10 do	advmod
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 does	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	do	present		Bro vocative	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	present	the King		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	do	future	King	next property	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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

Let the riding start again tomorrow with all the knights who came

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 riding	det
3	riding	riding	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Let	obj
4	start	start	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Let	xcomp
5	again	again	ADV	_	4 start	advmod
6	tomorrow	tomorrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 start	obl:unmarked
7	with	with	ADP	_	10 knights	case
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	10 knights	det:predet
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 knights	det
10	knights	knight	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 start	obl
11	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 came	nsubj
12	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 knights	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	let	imperative	you not said here	the riding			tree rules
2	start	infinitive	the riding not said here		again; tomorrow	with all knights	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V PP.subeventuality»: agent=Eventuality with knight=Subeventuality
3	come	past	all knights				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

Start the riding over tomorrow

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Start	start	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 riding	det
3	riding	riding	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Start	obj
4	over	over	ADP	_	5 tomorrow	case
5	tomorrow	tomorrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Start	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	start	imperative	you not said here	the riding			tomorrow		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent riding=Eventuality

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Let the riding start again tomorrow and send home all the failed riders today

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 riding	det
3	riding	riding	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Let	obj
4	start	start	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Let	xcomp
5	again	again	ADV	_	4 start	advmod
6	tomorrow	tomorrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 start	obl:unmarked
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 send	cc
8	send	send	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 start	conj
9	home	home	ADV	_	8 send	advmod
10	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	13 riders	det:predet
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 riders	det
12	failed	fail	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 riders	amod
13	riders	rider	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 send	obj
14	today	today	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 send	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	let	imperative	you not said here	the riding			tree rules
2	start	infinitive	the riding not said here		again; tomorrow		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
3	send	infinitive	the riding not said here	all failed riders	today	home property	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rider=Theme
4	fail	participle					vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Let the riding start again tomorrow

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 riding	det
3	riding	riding	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Let	obj
4	start	start	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Let	xcomp
5	again	again	ADV	_	4 start	advmod
6	tomorrow	tomorrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 start	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	let	imperative	you not said here	the riding					tree rules
2	start	infinitive	the riding not said here				again; tomorrow		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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