Test 1 · ★ · Project Gutenberg 5615, How the Hermit Helped to Win the K…

Bruv, why did the king end up putting his crown on the scales?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: king · What happens: do, end up, put, crown · To what, where: crown, scales

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 1642 «Project Gutenberg 5615, How the Hermit Helped to Win the King's Daughter, part 31: three ships, a hermit and two strange helpers» 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	Bruv	Bruv	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 did	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Bruv	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 did	advmod
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 king	det
6	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 end	nsubj
7	end	end	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 did	ccomp
8	up	up	ADP	_	7 end	compound:prt
9	putting	put	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 end	xcomp
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 crown	nmod:poss
11	crown	crown	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 putting	obj
12	on	on	ADP	_	14 scales	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 scales	det
14	scales	scale	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 putting	obl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	do	past				Bruv vocative	tree rules
2	end up	present	the king				tree rules
3	put	gerund	the king not said here	king's crown	the scales		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent crown=Theme on scale=Destination
4	crown		king				nom crown «communication transitive»: poss=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

Since gold was not enough

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Since	since	ADP	_	2 gold	case
2	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 enough	obl
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 enough	cop
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 enough	advmod
5	enough	enough	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is	past					since gold	enough property	tree rules

Option 2

Because the scale still tipped down

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Because	because	SCONJ	_	5 tipped	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 scale	det
3	scale	scale	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 tipped	nsubj:pass
4	still	still	ADV	_	5 tipped	advmod
5	tipped	tip	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	down	down	ADP	_	5 tipped	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tip down	participle · passive		the scale			still		vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Because the silk still outweighed all his gold

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Because	because	SCONJ	_	5 outweighed	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 silk	det
3	silk	silk	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 outweighed	nsubj
4	still	still	ADV	_	5 outweighed	advmod
5	outweighed	outweigh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 gold	det:predet
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 gold	nmod:poss
8	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 outweighed	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	outweigh	past	the silk	silk's gold			still		vn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot gold=Theme

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Because the king was too proud to quit

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Because	because	SCONJ	_	6 proud	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 king	det
3	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 proud	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 proud	cop
5	too	too	ADV	_	6 proud	advmod
6	proud	proud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 quit	mark
8	quit	quit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 proud	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the king					proud property	tree rules
2	quit	to-infinitive	the king not said here						vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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