Test 7 · ★ · Gutenberg 540, Renelde the Spinner: Renelde keeps spinning…
Mate, what did the Countess beg Renelde to do?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: do · To what, where: Mate
This is test 7 · ★ 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 | Mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 do | punct |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 10 do | obj |
| 4 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 do | aux |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 beg | det |
| 6 | Countess | Countess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 beg | compound |
| 7 | beg | beg | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 did | obj |
| 8 | Renelde | Renelde | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 beg | appos |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 do | mark |
| 10 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Mate | acl:relcl |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Mate | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past · do-support | Mate | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=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
stop spinning and rest, for the sake of the Count's health
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stop | stop | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | spinning | spin | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 1 stop | xcomp |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 rest | cc |
| 4 | rest | rest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 spinning | conj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 sake | punct |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 sake | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 sake | det |
| 8 | sake | sake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 spinning | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 health | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Count | det |
| 11 | Count | Count | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 health | nmod:poss |
| 12 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 11 Count | case |
| 13 | health | health | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 sake | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stop | imperative | you not said here | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | spin | gerund | you not said here | for the sake of the Count's health | vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
stop spinning, for the Count's sake
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stop | stop | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | spinning | spin | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 1 stop | xcomp |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 sake | punct |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 sake | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Count | det |
| 6 | Count | Count | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 sake | nmod:poss |
| 7 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 6 Count | case |
| 8 | sake | sake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 spinning | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stop | imperative | you not said here | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | spin | gerund | you not said here | for the Count's sake | vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 3
keep quiet for the Count
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | keep | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | quiet | quiet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 keep | xcomp |
| 3 | for | for | ADP | _ | 5 Count | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Count | det |
| 5 | Count | count | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 keep | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | imperative | you not said here | for the Count; quiet property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
Option 4
to give up the wheel for the Count's own sake and peace
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | to | to | PART | _ | 2 give | mark |
| 2 | give | give | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | up | up | ADP | _ | 2 give | compound:prt |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 wheel | det |
| 5 | wheel | wheel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 give | obj |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 sake | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Count | det |
| 8 | Count | Count | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 sake | nmod:poss |
| 9 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 8 Count | case |
| 10 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 sake | amod |
| 11 | sake | sake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 give | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 peace | cc |
| 13 | peace | peace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 sake | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give up | to-infinitive | the wheel | for the Count's own sake and peace | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wheel=Source |
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