Test 7 · ★ · Popular Tales from the Norse, Dapplegrim, part 2: the yout…

Yo, what did the mates tell the King about him?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: mates · What happens: do, tell · To what, where: King · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 1560 «Popular Tales from the Norse, Dapplegrim, part 2: the youth wins a huge dappled horse and rides to the King's palace» 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	_	4 did	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yo	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 mates	det
6	mates	mate	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 tell	nsubj
7	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 did	ccomp
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 King	det
9	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 tell	obj
10	about	about	ADP	_	11 him	case
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 tell	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past							tree rules
2	tell speech: assert	present	the mates		the King			about King	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent king=Recipient about he=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 · ← Mova's choice

He said he could rescue her from the Troll alone

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 said	nsubj
2	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 rescue	nsubj
4	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 rescue	aux
5	rescue	rescue	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 said	ccomp
6	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 rescue	obj
7	from	from	ADP	_	9 Troll	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Troll	det
9	Troll	troll	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 rescue	obl
10	alone	alone	ADV	_	5 rescue	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	He						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	rescue	could	he	her = she		the Troll		alone property	vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent she=Theme from troll=Source

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

He said he could rescue her

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 said	nsubj
2	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 rescue	nsubj
4	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 rescue	aux
5	rescue	rescue	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 said	ccomp
6	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 rescue	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	He						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	rescue	could	he	her = she					vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme

Option 3

He swore he would win her

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 swore	nsubj
2	swore	swear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 win	nsubj
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 win	aux
5	win	win	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 swore	xcomp
6	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 win	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	swear	past	He						vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	win	would	he	her = she					vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Eventuality

Option 4

He said he could rescue her from the Troll and bring her home safely

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 said	nsubj
2	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 rescue	nsubj
4	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 rescue	aux
5	rescue	rescue	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 said	ccomp
6	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 rescue	obj
7	from	from	ADP	_	9 Troll	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Troll	det
9	Troll	troll	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 rescue	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 bring	cc
11	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 rescue	conj
12	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 bring	obj
13	home	home	ADV	_	11 bring	advmod
14	safely	safely	ADV	_	11 bring	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	He					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	rescue	could	he	her = she		the Troll		vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent she=Theme from troll=Source
3	bring	infinitive	he not said here		her = she		home, safely property	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument she=Destination

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1560-pg540-part57/t7/