Test 6 · ★ · Tales from the Fjeld, King Lindorm, part 55: the forged le…

Was Peter, like, a bad dude?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be · To what, where: Peter

This is test 6 · ★ 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	2 Peter	cop
2	Peter	Peter	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Peter	punct
4	like	like	INTJ	_	2 Peter	discourse
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 dude	punct
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 dude	det
7	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 dude	amod
8	dude	dude	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Peter	conj
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 Peter	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		Peter and a bad dude					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 used to be a bad dude who stole from people

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 used	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 used	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 used	nsubj
4	used	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	9 dude	mark
6	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 dude	cop
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 dude	det
8	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 dude	amod
9	dude	dude	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 used	advcl
10	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 stole	nsubj
11	stole	steal	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 dude	acl:relcl
12	from	from	ADP	_	13 people	case
13	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 stole	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	use	past	he			vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is a	to-infinitive	he not said here	a bad dude		tree rules
3	steal	past	a bad dude		from people	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

He used to be, till he quit

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 used	nsubj
2	used	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 be	mark
4	be	be	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 used	xcomp
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 used	punct
6	till	till	ADP	_	7 he	case
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 used	obl
8	quit	quit	PUNCT	_	2 used	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	use	past	He				till he		vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	be	to-infinitive	He not said here						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

Yes, he robbed travellers

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 robbed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 robbed	nsubj
4	robbed	rob	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	travellers	traveller	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 robbed	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	rob	past	he	travellers					vn cheat-10.6.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent traveller=Source

Option 4

Nah, he was always a good man who never did wrong

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	8 man	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 man	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 man	cop
5	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	8 man	advmod
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 man	det
7	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 man	amod
8	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 did	nsubj
10	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	11 did	advmod
11	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 man	acl:relcl
12	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 did	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	he	a good man				always property	tree rules
2	not do	past	a good man					wrong property	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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