Test 1 · ★ · West Highland Tales, The Steed of Bells, part 13: the thre…

Yo, did the Queen really make her stepsons gamble their heads on cards?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Queen, stepsons · What happens: make, gamble · To what, where: heads, cards

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 1516 «West Highland Tales, The Steed of Bells, part 13: the three princes set out with the Thief of Sloan to reach the Knight's castle» 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	Yo	yo	INTJ	_	7 make	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yo	punct
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 make	aux
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Queen	det
5	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 make	nsubj
6	really	really	ADV	_	7 make	advmod
7	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 stepsons	nmod:poss
9	stepsons	stepson	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 gamble	nsubj
10	gamble	gamble	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 make	xcomp
11	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 heads	nmod:poss
12	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 gamble	obj
13	on	on	ADP	_	14 cards	case
14	cards	card	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 gamble	obl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 make	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	past · do-support	the Queen						tree rules
2	gamble	present	Queen's stepsons	stepsons's heads		cards			vn risk-94 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Pivot

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

Nah, mate, the lads cheated her back

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	7 cheated	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 cheated	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 lads	punct
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 lads	det
6	lads	lad	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 mate	conj
7	cheated	cheat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 cheated	obj
9	back	back	ADV	_	7 cheated	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cheat back	past	mate and the lads	her = she					vn cheat-10.6.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Source

Option 2

Yeah, mate, she was proper sly, sneaky and cruel about it all the time

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	8 sly	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 mate	punct
3	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Yeah	vocative
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 sly	punct
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 sly	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 sly	cop
7	proper	properly	ADV	_	8 sly	advmod
8	sly	sly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 sneaky	punct
10	sneaky	sneaky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 sly	conj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 cruel	cc
12	cruel	cruel	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 sly	conj
13	about	about	ADP	_	14 it	case
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 cruel	obl
15	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	17 time	det:predet
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 time	det
17	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 sly	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	she	time	properly, sly property	tree rules
2	be		she not said here			tree rules
3	be		she not said here		about mate	tree rules

Option 3

Yeah, mate, she set them up good

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 set	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 mate	punct
3	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Yeah	vocative
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 set	punct
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 set	nsubj
6	set	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 set	obj
8	up	up	ADP	_	6 set	compound:prt
9	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 set	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	set up	past	she	them = they				good property	vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient they=Result

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, mate, she was proper sly about it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 mate	punct
3	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Yeah	vocative
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 sly	punct
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 sly	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 sly	cop
7	proper	properly	ADV	_	8 sly	advmod
8	sly	sly	ADV	_	1 Yeah	advmod
9	about	about	ADP	_	10 it	case
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 sly	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	she					about mate; properly, sly property	tree rules

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