Test 6 · ★ · Popular Tales from the Norse, Cinderlad, part 78: Cinderla…

Lol, what did the King reckon about his lazy workers?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: do · To what, where: King reckon

This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 1581 «Popular Tales from the Norse, Cinderlad, part 78: Cinderlad sets out to watch the seven foals and meets the old hag» 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	Lol	lol	INTJ	_	4 did	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 did	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	7 reckon	det
6	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 reckon	compound
7	reckon	reckon	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obj
8	about	about	ADP	_	11 workers	case
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 workers	nmod:poss
10	lazy	lazy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 workers	amod
11	workers	worker	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 reckon	nmod
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past		the King reckon				about his lazy workers	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reckon=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

He said he had had enough of such fellows and would hire no more of them

The tree, 16 words

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 had	nsubj
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 had	aux
5	had	have	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 said	ccomp
6	enough	enough	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 had	advmod
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 fellows	case
8	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 fellows	amod
9	fellows	fellow	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 enough	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 hire	cc
11	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 hire	aux
12	hire	hire	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 had	conj
13	no	no	ADV	_	14 more	advmod
14	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	12 hire	obj
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 them	case
16	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 more	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	He		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	have	past · perfect	he		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	hire	would	he not said here	more of fellows	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent more=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

He said he had had enough of such fellows

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 had	nsubj
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 had	aux
5	had	have	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 said	ccomp
6	enough	enough	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 had	advmod
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 fellows	case
8	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 fellows	amod
9	fellows	fellow	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 enough	obl

#	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	have	past · perfect	he						vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

He said he had had enough of such fellows and sent them home in disgrace

The tree, 15 words

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 had	nsubj
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 had	aux
5	had	have	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 said	ccomp
6	enough	enough	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 had	advmod
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 fellows	case
8	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 fellows	amod
9	fellows	fellow	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 enough	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 sent	cc
11	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 said	conj
12	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 sent	obj
13	home	home	ADV	_	11 sent	advmod
14	in	in	ADP	_	15 disgrace	case
15	disgrace	disgrace	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 sent	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, 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	have	past · perfect	he				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	send	past	He not said here	fellows = fellow	disgrace	home property	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme in disgrace=Destination

Option 4

He said he had enough of lazy men

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	4 had	nsubj
4	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 said	ccomp
5	enough	enough	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 said	advmod
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 men	case
7	lazy	lazy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 men	amod
8	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 enough	obl

#	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	have	past	he						vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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