Test 11 · ★ · pg641, Elsa, part 3: Elsa stays with the lady, learns the…

What did the lady say about Elsa's future man?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: lady · What happens: do, say · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 1752 «pg641, Elsa, part 3: Elsa stays with the lady, learns the thirteenth dish is forbidden, and must leave the house» 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	2 did	nsubj
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 lady	det
4	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 say	nsubj
5	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 did	parataxis
6	about	about	ADP	_	10 man	case
7	Elsa	Elsa	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 man	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 Elsa	case
9	future	future	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 man	amod
10	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 say	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past							vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert	present	the lady					about Elsa's future man	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=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

he'd be the old man

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	6 man	nsubj
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 man	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 man	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 man	det
5	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 man	amod
6	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	would	he	the old man					tree rules

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

he'd be a black cat

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	6 cat	nsubj
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 cat	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 cat	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 cat	det
5	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 cat	amod
6	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	would	he	a black cat					tree rules

Option 3

he'd be a golden cock

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	6 cock	nsubj
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 cock	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 cock	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 cock	det
5	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 cock	amod
6	cock	cock	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	would	he	a golden cock					tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

he was made for her

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	3 made	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 made	aux:pass
3	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	for	for	ADP	_	5 her	case
5	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 made	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	past · passive		he				for her = she	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: subject=Product for she=Beneficiary

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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