Test 13 · ★ · Norse Tales, Dapplegrim: the youth wins the Princess with…

Fr though, why did the King let the youth marry her?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Fr, youth · What happens: let, marry · To what, where: youth, Fr

This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 1562 «Norse Tales, Dapplegrim: the youth wins the Princess with two tricks and a second 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	Fr	fr	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 let	nsubj
2	though	though	ADV	_	8 let	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 let	punct
4	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	8 let	advmod
5	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 let	aux
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 King	det
7	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 let	nsubj
8	let	let	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 youth	det
10	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 let	obj
11	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 let	xcomp
12	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 marry	obj
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 let	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	let	past · do-support	Fr	the youth				though property	tree rules
2	marry	infinitive	the youth not said here	Fr					vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient

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

she begged him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 begged	nsubj
2	begged	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 begged	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	beg speech: request	past	she		him = he				vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent he=Recipient

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

the youth paid gold

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 youth	det
2	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	paid	pay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 youth	acl
4	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 paid	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pay	participle	the youth not said here	gold					vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gold=Asset

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

the trial showed it was fated

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 trial	det
2	trial	trial	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 showed	nsubj
3	showed	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 fated	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 fated	cop
6	fated	fated	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 showed	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	show	past	the trial						vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	trial					fated property	tree rules

Option 4

the horse talked

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 horse	det
2	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 talked	nsubj
3	talked	talk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	talk	past	the horse						vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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