Test 6 · ★ · Hibernian Tales, The Black Thief and the Knight of Glen: t…

Your man the Knight, was he dead chuffed to get his finger back?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: chuff, get back · To what, where: man, finger

This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 1518 «Hibernian Tales, The Black Thief and the Knight of Glen: the Thief's last tale saves the youngest prince» 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	Your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 man	nmod:poss
2	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 chuffed	nsubj:pass
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Knight	det
4	Knight	knight	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 man	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 man	punct
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 chuffed	aux:pass
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 chuffed	nsubj
8	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 chuffed	amod
9	chuffed	chuff	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
10	to	to	PART	_	11 get	mark
11	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 chuffed	advcl
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 finger	nmod:poss
13	finger	finger	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 get	obj
14	back	back	ADV	_	11 get	advmod
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 chuffed	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chuff	past · passive		Your man					tree rules
2	get back	to-infinitive		man's finger					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer finger=Stimulus

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

he believed the whole story and was over the moon

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	2 believed	nsubj
2	believed	believe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 story	det
4	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 story	amod
5	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 believed	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 moon	cc
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 moon	cop
8	over	over	ADP	_	10 moon	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 moon	det
10	moon	moon	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 believed	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	believe	past	he	the whole story					vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer story=Stimulus
2	is	past	he not said here			the moon			tree rules

Option 2

he believed the tale

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	2 believed	nsubj
2	believed	believe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 tale	det
4	tale	tale	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 believed	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	believe	past	he	the tale					vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer tale=Stimulus

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

he believed the whole story

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	2 believed	nsubj
2	believed	believe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 story	det
4	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 story	amod
5	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 believed	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	believe	past	he	the whole story					vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer story=Stimulus

Option 4

yes, he believed the whole story about the finger and the giant

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 believed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 believed	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 believed	nsubj
4	believed	believe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 story	det
6	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 story	amod
7	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 believed	obj
8	about	about	ADP	_	10 finger	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 finger	det
10	finger	finger	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 story	nmod
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 giant	cc
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 giant	det
13	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 believed	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	believe	past	he	the whole story				about the finger	vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer story=Stimulus

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