Test 12 · ★ · Project Gutenberg 5615, How the Hermit Helped to Win the K…

Wait, the youngest reckoned they had three now?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, they · What happens: wait, reckon, have · To what, where: three

This is test 12 · ★ 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	Wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 reckoned	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 reckoned	det
4	youngest	young	ADJ	Degree=Sup	5 reckoned	advmod
5	reckoned	reckon	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 had	advcl
6	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 had	nsubj
7	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Wait	parataxis
8	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 had	obj
9	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 had	advmod
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	reckon	participle	they not said here			vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
3	have	past	they	three	now	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent three=Patient

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 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, before it was two, then the fog man

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 two	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 two	punct
3	before	before	SCONJ	_	6 two	mark
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 two	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 two	cop
6	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 man	punct
8	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	11 man	advmod
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 man	det
10	fog	fog	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 man	compound
11	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 two	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	it	two and the fog man					tree rules

Option 2

Yeah, before it was two, then the fog man and the tree man joined

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 two	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 two	punct
3	before	before	SCONJ	_	6 two	mark
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 two	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 two	cop
6	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 man	punct
8	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	11 man	advmod
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 man	det
10	fog	fog	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 man	compound
11	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 two	conj
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 man	cc
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 man	det
14	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 man	compound
15	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 man	conj
16	joined	join	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 man	acl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	it	two and the fog man and the tree man					tree rules
2	join	participle		the fog man and the tree man not said here					vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Yeah, before it was two, then the fog man joined the crew last night

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 two	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 two	punct
3	before	before	SCONJ	_	6 two	mark
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 two	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 two	cop
6	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 joined	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 joined	punct
8	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	12 joined	advmod
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 man	det
10	fog	fog	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 man	compound
11	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 joined	nsubj
12	joined	join	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 crew	det
14	crew	crew	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 joined	obj
15	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 night	amod
16	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 joined	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	it	two					tree rules
2	join	past	the fog man	the crew			then; night		vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crew=Patient

Option 4

Yeah, before it was two, then a fox and the fog man joined

The tree, 13 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	10 fox	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 fox	punct
3	before	before	SCONJ	_	10 fox	mark
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 fox	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 fox	cop
6	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 fox	nsubj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 fox	punct
8	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	10 fox	advmod
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 fox	det
10	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 man	cc
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 man	det
13	fog	fog	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 man	compound
14	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 fox	conj
15	joined	join	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 man	acl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	it	a fox and the fog man			then		tree rules
2	join	participle		the fog man not said here					vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient

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