Test 12 · ★ · Fairy Tales (pg540), Drakestail: a duck calls on his frien…
Ngl, did the King think he'd won the game?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Ngl · What happens: do, win · To what, where: King think, game
This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 1551 «Fairy Tales (pg540), Drakestail: a duck calls on his friends to get back what the King owes him» 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 | Ngl | Ngl | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 did | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Ngl | punct |
| 3 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 think | det |
| 5 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 think | compound |
| 6 | think | think | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 did | obj |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 won | nsubj |
| 8 | 'd | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 won | aux |
| 9 | won | win | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 think | acl:relcl |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 game | det |
| 11 | game | game | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 won | obj |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | Ngl | the King think | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent think=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | win | past · perfect | Ngl | the game | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent game=Eventuality |
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 reckoned he was winning
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 reckoned | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 reckoned | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 reckoned | nsubj |
| 4 | reckoned | reckon | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 winning | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 winning | aux |
| 7 | winning | win | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 reckoned | ccomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reckon | past | he | vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | win | past · progressive | he | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 2
Yeah, he thought he'd won the whole game and was already celebrating, mate
The tree, 14 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 thought | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 thought | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 thought | nsubj |
| 4 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 won | nsubj |
| 6 | 'd | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 won | aux |
| 7 | won | won | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 thought | ccomp |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 game | det |
| 9 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 game | amod |
| 10 | game | game | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 won | obj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 celebrating | cc |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 celebrating | aux |
| 13 | already | already | ADV | _ | 14 celebrating | advmod |
| 14 | celebrating | celebrate | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 thought | advcl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 mate | punct |
| 16 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 celebrating | vocative |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past | he | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | won | would | he | the whole game | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | celebrate | past · progressive | he not said here | mate vocative | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
Option 3
Yeah, he was so sure he'd won that he started counting his gold coins, mate
The tree, 16 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 6 sure | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 sure | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 sure | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 sure | cop |
| 5 | so | so | ADV | _ | 6 sure | advmod |
| 6 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 won | nsubj |
| 8 | 'd | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 won | aux |
| 9 | won | win | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 sure | ccomp |
| 10 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 started | mark |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 started | nsubj |
| 12 | started | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 won | advcl |
| 13 | counting | count | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 started | xcomp |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 coins | nmod:poss |
| 15 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 coins | compound |
| 16 | coins | coin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 counting | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 mate | punct |
| 18 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 sure | parataxis |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | he | sure property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | win | past · perfect | he | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | start | past | he | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | count | gerund | he not said here | his gold coins | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent coin=Theme | ||||
| 5 | coin | his = he | nom coin «possession transitive»: poss=agent |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Yeah, he thought he was dead sure
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 thought | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 thought | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 thought | nsubj |
| 4 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 sure | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 sure | cop |
| 7 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 sure | amod |
| 8 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 thought | ccomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past | he | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is | past | he | sure property | tree rules |
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