Test 4 · ★ · Gutenberg 641, The Maiden with the Wooden Helmet, part 48:…

no cap, were the fam fine with him marrying her?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: cap · What happens: be, marry · To what, where: her

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 1797 «Gutenberg 641, The Maiden with the Wooden Helmet, part 48: a dying mother hides her daughter's beauty, and a rich young man wants to marry the girl in the helmet» 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	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	2 cap	det
2	cap	cap	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 fine	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 cap	punct
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 fine	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 fam	det
6	fam	fam	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 fine	nsubj
7	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	with	with	ADP	_	9 him	case
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 fine	obl
10	marrying	marry	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 fine	parataxis
11	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 marrying	obj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 fine	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	no cap					with him = he; fine property	tree rules
2	marry	gerund		her = she					vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=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 · ← Mova's choice

yeah, they loved it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 loved	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 loved	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 loved	nsubj
4	loved	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 loved	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	love	past	they	it					vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus

Option 2

nah, they were chill

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 chill	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 chill	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 chill	cop
5	chill	chill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	they					chill property	tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

nah, they were livid and made up dumb lies

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 livid	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 livid	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 livid	cop
5	livid	livid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 lies	amod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 made	cc
7	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 livid	conj
8	up	up	ADP	_	7 made	compound:prt
9	dumb	dumb	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 lies	amod
10	lies	lie	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	they					livid property	tree rules
2	make up	participle	they not said here						vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme

Option 4

nah, they were upset and told lies

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 upset	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 upset	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 upset	cop
5	upset	upset	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 told	cc
7	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 upset	conj
8	lies	lie	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 told	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	they					upset property	tree rules
2	tell speech: assert	participle	they not said here	lies					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent lie=Recipient

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