Test 10 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Steadfast Tin Soldier, part 71…

What's a squire, like a knight in a chess game?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be · To what, where: squire

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1747 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Steadfast Tin Soldier, part 71: the soldier falls out of the window, sails in a paper boat, is swallowed by a fish, and melts in the stove» 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 squire	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 squire	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 squire	det
4	squire	squire	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 knight	punct
6	like	like	ADP	_	8 knight	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 knight	det
8	knight	knight	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 squire	appos
9	in	in	ADP	_	12 game	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 game	det
11	chess	chess	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 game	compound
12	game	game	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 knight	nmod
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 squire	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		a squire					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, a squire is a young soldier in training

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	8 soldier	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 squire	det
4	squire	squire	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 soldier	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 soldier	cop
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 soldier	det
7	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 soldier	amod
8	soldier	soldier	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	in	in	ADP	_	10 training	case
10	training	training	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 soldier	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	a squire	a young soldier		training			tree rules

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Nah, a squire was a knight's servant who carried his armour and his lance into battle for him

The tree, 19 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	9 servant	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 squire	det
4	squire	squire	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 servant	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 servant	cop
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 knight	det
7	knight	knight	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 servant	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 knight	case
9	servant	servant	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
10	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 carried	nsubj
11	carried	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 servant	acl:relcl
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 armour	nmod:poss
13	armour	armour	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 carried	obj
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 lance	cc
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 lance	nmod:poss
16	lance	lance	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 armour	conj
17	into	into	ADP	_	18 battle	case
18	battle	battle	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 carried	obl
19	for	for	ADP	_	20 him	case
20	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 carried	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	a squire	a knight's servant					tree rules
2	carry	past	a knight's servant	squire's armour and squire's lance		battle		for squire	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent armour=Theme

Option 3

Yeah, a knight's helper who rides a horse, kinda

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 helper	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 helper	punct
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 knight	det
4	knight	knight	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 helper	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 knight	case
6	helper	helper	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 rides	nsubj
8	rides	ride	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 helper	acl:relcl
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 horse	det
10	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 rides	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 helper	punct
12	kinda	kinda	ADV	_	6 helper	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ride	present	a knight's helper	a horse					vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Nah, a squire was a landowner with a big house

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	7 landowner	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 squire	det
4	squire	squire	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 landowner	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 landowner	cop
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 landowner	det
7	landowner	landowner	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	with	with	ADP	_	11 house	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 house	det
10	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 house	amod
11	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 landowner	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	a squire	a landowner				with a big house	tree rules

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