Test 3 · ★ · Tales from the Fjeld, King Lindorm, part 55: the forged le…
Was the retainer a total softie, or what?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be · To what, where: retainer
This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 1666 «Tales from the Fjeld, King Lindorm, part 55: the forged letters and the flight to the hut» 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 | Was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 retainer | cop |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 retainer | det |
| 3 | retainer | retainer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 softie | nsubj |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 softie | det |
| 5 | total | total | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 softie | amod |
| 6 | softie | softie | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 what | punct |
| 8 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 9 what | cc |
| 9 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 softie | conj |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 softie | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the retainer | 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 · ← Mova's choice
Yeah, he just couldn't bring himself to burn the poor little kids
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 7 bring | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yeah | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 bring | nsubj |
| 4 | just | just | ADV | _ | 7 bring | advmod |
| 5 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 bring | aux |
| 6 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 bring | advmod |
| 7 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 7 bring | obj |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 burn | mark |
| 10 | burn | burn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 bring | advcl |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 kids | det |
| 12 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 kids | amod |
| 13 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 kids | amod |
| 14 | kids | kid | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 burn | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not bring | could | he | himself = he | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent himself=Theme | ||||
| 2 | burn | to-infinitive | he not said here | the poor little kids | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent kid=Theme |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Yeah, he couldn't burn the kids
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 6 burn | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yeah | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 burn | nsubj |
| 4 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 burn | aux |
| 5 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 burn | advmod |
| 6 | burn | burn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 kids | det |
| 8 | kids | kid | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 burn | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not burn | could | he | the kids | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent kid=Theme |
Option 3
Yeah, he wouldn't hurt them
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 6 hurt | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yeah | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 hurt | nsubj |
| 4 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 hurt | aux |
| 5 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 hurt | advmod |
| 6 | hurt | hurt | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 hurt | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not hurt | would | he | them = they | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Patient |
Option 4
Yeah, honestly he felt so bad for those kids he let them go free
The tree, 14 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 5 felt | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 felt | punct |
| 3 | honestly | honestly | ADV | _ | 5 felt | advmod |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 felt | nsubj |
| 5 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | so | so | ADV | _ | 7 bad | advmod |
| 7 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 felt | xcomp |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 kids | case |
| 9 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 10 kids | det |
| 10 | kids | kid | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 bad | obl |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 let | nsubj |
| 12 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 felt | ccomp |
| 13 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 let | obj |
| 14 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 let | xcomp |
| 15 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 go | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feel | past | he | bad, honestly property | vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||
| 2 | let | past | he | kids = kid | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | go | infinitive | kids = kid not said here | free property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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