Test 3 · ★ · The Violet Fairy Book, How the Dragon Was Tricked, part 2:…

Innit true the youth was the king's best mate?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: true youth · What happens: be · To what, where: best mate

This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 1613 «The Violet Fairy Book, How the Dragon Was Tricked, part 2: a clever youth tricks a king, a shepherd and a dragon» 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	Innit	Innit	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 true	compound
2	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 youth	amod
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 youth	det
4	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 mate	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 mate	cop
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 king	det
7	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 mate	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 king	case
9	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	10 mate	amod
10	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	10 mate	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	the true youth	the king's best mate					tree rules

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

Nah, he was just a servant

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	7 servant	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 servant	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 servant	cop
5	just	just	ADV	_	7 servant	advmod
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 servant	det
7	servant	servant	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

Nope, they were enemies then

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nope	nope	INTJ	_	5 enemies	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nope	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 enemies	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 enemies	cop
5	enemies	enemy	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
6	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 enemies	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	they	enemies			then		tree rules

Option 3

Yeah, they went hunting together every single day for years

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 went	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 went	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 went	nsubj
4	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	hunting	hunt	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 went	xcomp
6	together	together	ADV	_	5 hunting	advmod
7	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	9 day	det
8	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 day	amod
9	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 hunting	obl:unmarked
10	for	for	ADP	_	11 years	case
11	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 hunting	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	they						vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	hunt	gerund	they not said here				day; year	together property	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Nah, the king just wanted him caught

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 wanted	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 king	det
4	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 wanted	nsubj
5	just	just	ADV	_	6 wanted	advmod
6	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 wanted	obj
8	caught	catch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 wanted	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	the king	him = he					tree rules
2	catch not said to happen	participle	him = he not said here						vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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.

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