Test 8 · ★ · pg641, Fet-Fruners, part 58: the princess passes the trap,…

did the emperor say he'd chop her head off or what, proper serious?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: emperor · What happens: say, chop off · To what, where: head · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 1807 «pg641, Fet-Fruners, part 58: the princess passes the trap, is sent off with Sunlight, and sails to find Iliane» 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	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 emperor	aux
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 emperor	det
3	emperor	emperor	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 say	nsubj
4	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 chop	nsubj
6	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 chop	aux
7	chop	chop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 say	ccomp
8	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 head	nmod:poss
9	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 chop	obj
10	off	off	ADP	_	7 chop	compound:prt
11	or	or	CCONJ	_	15 serious	cc
12	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	15 serious	nsubj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 serious	punct
14	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 serious	amod
15	serious	serious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 chop	conj
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 say	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	the emperor						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	chop off	would	emperor	her head					vn carve-21.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=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, he'd chop her head off and feed it to the dogs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 chop	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 chop	nsubj
4	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 chop	aux
5	chop	chop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 head	nmod:poss
7	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 chop	obj
8	off	off	ADP	_	5 chop	compound:prt
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 feed	cc
10	feed	feed	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 chop	conj
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 feed	obj
12	to	to	ADP	_	14 dogs	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 dogs	det
14	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 feed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chop off	would	he	her head					vn carve-21.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Patient
2	feed	infinitive	he not said here	head	the dogs				vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Theme to dog=Recipient

Option 2

Nah, he'd send her away

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 send	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 send	nsubj
4	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 send	aux
5	send	send	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 send	obj
7	away	away	ADV	_	5 send	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	send away	would	he	her = she				away property	vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, he'd cut off her head

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 cut	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 cut	nsubj
4	'd	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 cut	aux
5	cut	cut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	off	off	ADP	_	8 head	case
7	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 head	nmod:poss
8	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 cut	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cut off	past · perfect	he	her head					vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector head=Eventuality

Option 4

Yeah, he'd exile her

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 exile	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 exile	nsubj
4	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 exile	aux
5	exile	exile	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 exile	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	exile	would	he	her = she					vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme

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