Test 6 · ★ · Gutenberg 540, Renelde the Spinner: Renelde keeps spinning…

Bro, why couldn't the Count die when the doctors said so?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Count, doctors · What happens: not die, say · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 1569 «Gutenberg 540, Renelde the Spinner: Renelde keeps spinning through soldiers, the Count's rage and the endless nettles, then sews his shroud» 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	Bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 die	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	8 die	advmod
4	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 die	aux
5	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 die	advmod
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Count	det
7	Count	Count	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 die	nsubj
8	die	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Bro	acl:relcl
9	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	12 said	advmod
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 doctors	det
11	doctors	doctor	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 said	nsubj
12	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 die	advcl
13	so	so	ADV	_	12 said	advmod
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Bro	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not die	could	the Count						vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
2	say speech: assert	past	the doctors						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

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

Death was just late

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 was	nsubj
2	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	just	just	ADV	_	4 late	advmod
4	late	late	ADV	Degree=Pos	2 was	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	past	Death					late property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

he had no will left

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 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	5 left	nsubj:pass
4	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 left	aux
5	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 had	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	he						tree rules
2	leave	future · passive		no					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

Option 3

he was too strong

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	4 strong	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 strong	cop
3	too	too	ADV	_	4 strong	advmod
4	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

he had no shroud, so Death waited

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 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 shroud	det
4	shroud	shroud	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 had	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 waited	punct
6	so	so	ADV	_	8 waited	advmod
7	Death	Death	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 waited	nsubj
8	waited	wait	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 had	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	he	no shroud					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shroud=Patient
2	wait	past	Death						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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