Test 9 · ★ · Project Gutenberg 641, The Boys with the Golden Stars, par…

Dude, why was Anna's bread so well special?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be · To what, where: bread

This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 1801 «Project Gutenberg 641, The Boys with the Golden Stars, part 1: an emperor hears three sisters' boasts and carries off Laptitza» 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	Dude	dude	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 special	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 bread	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	7 bread	advmod
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 bread	cop
5	Anna	Anna	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 bread	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 Anna	case
7	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Dude	conj
8	so	so	ADV	_	10 special	advmod
9	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	10 special	advmod
10	special	special	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	10 special	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		Anna's bread					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

Keeps him young and brave through every single war

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Keeps	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Keeps	obj
3	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Keeps	xcomp
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 brave	cc
5	brave	brave	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 young	conj
6	through	through	ADP	_	9 war	case
7	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	9 war	det
8	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 war	amod
9	war	war	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Keeps	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	present		him = he		every single war		young property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent he=Theme through war=Location

Option 2

Makes him live for ever and never fear anyone at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 live	advcl
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Makes	obj
3	live	live	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	for	for	ADP	_	5 ever	case
5	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	3 live	obl
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 fear	cc
7	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	8 fear	advmod
8	fear	fear	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 live	conj
9	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	8 fear	obj
10	at	at	ADP	_	11 all	case
11	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 fear	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	make	present	you not said here	him = he		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset he=Product
2	live	imperative	you not said here			vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	not fear	infinitive	you not said here	anyone	all	vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer anyone=Stimulus

Option 3

Keeps him fit and strong

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Keeps	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Keeps	obj
3	fit	fit	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Keeps	xcomp
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 strong	cc
5	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 fit	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	present		him = he				fit property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Keeps him young and brave

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Keeps	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Keeps	obj
3	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Keeps	xcomp
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 brave	cc
5	brave	brave	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 young	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	present		him = he				young property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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