Test 1 · ★ · Popular Tales from the Norse, East of the Sun and West of…

So the lad just ghosted two princesses who were literally begging him for help, right?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: lad, two princesses · What happens: ghost, beg · To what, where: two princesses, lad

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 1545 «Popular Tales from the Norse, East of the Sun and West of the Moon, part 42: the youth frees the princesses, wins a queen, and sets out to find Whiteland» 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	So	so	ADV	_	5 ghosted	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 lad	det
3	lad	lad	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 ghosted	nsubj
4	just	just	ADV	_	5 ghosted	advmod
5	ghosted	ghost	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 princesses	nummod
7	princesses	princess	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 ghosted	obj
8	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 begging	nsubj
9	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 begging	aux
10	literally	literally	ADV	_	11 begging	advmod
11	begging	beg	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 princesses	acl
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 begging	obj
13	for	for	ADP	_	14 help	case
14	help	help	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 begging	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 help	punct
16	right	right	INTJ	_	11 begging	discourse
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 ghosted	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ghost	past	the lad	two princesses					vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location princess=Theme
2	beg speech: request	past · progressive	two princesses		lad			for help; literally property	vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent he=Recipient for help=Topic

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

Nah, he was nice

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 nice	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 nice	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 nice	cop
5	nice	nice	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	he					nice property	tree rules

Option 2

Yeah, but he had his reasons

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 had	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 had	punct
3	but	but	CCONJ	_	5 had	cc
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 had	nsubj
5	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 reasons	nmod:poss
7	reasons	reason	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 had	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	he	his reasons					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reason=Patient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, he was lowkey savage about it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 savage	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 savage	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 savage	cop
5	lowkey	lowkey	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 savage	amod
6	savage	savage	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	about	about	ADP	_	8 it	case
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 savage	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	he	lowkey savage				about savage	tree rules

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Nah, he helped them out fr

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 helped	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 helped	nsubj
4	helped	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 helped	obj
6	out	out	ADP	_	4 helped	compound:prt
7	fr	fr	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 helped	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	help out	past	he	them = they					tree rules

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