Test 1 · ★ · Yellow Fairy Book, Graciosa and Percinet, part 38: the Duc…

Mate, was the King dead keen to marry her when he saw all that gold?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: he · What happens: be, marry, see · To what, where: King dead keen, her, gold

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 1541 «Yellow Fairy Book, Graciosa and Percinet, part 38: the Duchess gets her gold and is thrown from the horse» 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	Mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 keen	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Mate	punct
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 keen	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 keen	det
5	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 keen	compound
6	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 keen	amod
7	keen	keen	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	to	to	PART	_	9 marry	mark
9	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 keen	acl
10	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 marry	obj
11	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	13 saw	advmod
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 saw	nsubj
13	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 marry	advcl
14	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	16 gold	det:predet
15	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	16 gold	det
16	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 saw	obj
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 keen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the King dead keen	Mate vocative	tree rules
2	marry	to-infinitive		her = she		vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient
3	see	past	he	all gold		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer gold=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

yeah, he said yes straight away, mate, and kissed her hand

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 said	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 said	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	7 away	discourse
6	straight	straight	ADV	_	7 away	advmod
7	away	away	ADV	_	4 said	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 mate	punct
9	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 said	vocative
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 kissed	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 kissed	cc
12	kissed	kiss	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 said	conj
13	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 hand	nmod:poss
14	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 kissed	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	he					mate vocative; away property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	kiss	past	he not said here	her hand					vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Co-Agent

Option 2

yeah, he said yes straight away and called the priests

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 said	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 said	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	7 away	discourse
6	straight	straight	ADV	_	7 away	advmod
7	away	away	ADV	_	4 said	advmod
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 called	cc
9	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 said	conj
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 priests	det
11	priests	priest	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 called	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	he					away property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	call	past	he not said here	the priests					vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent priest=Recipient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

yeah, he said yes straight away

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 said	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 said	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 said	obj
6	straight	straight	ADV	_	7 away	advmod
7	away	away	ADV	_	4 said	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	he					away property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent yes=Topic

Option 4

yes, he agreed the same day

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 agreed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yes	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 agreed	nsubj
4	agreed	agree	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 day	det
6	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 day	amod
7	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 agreed	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	agree speech: agree	past	he				day		vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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