Test 10 · ★ · pg641, Iliane and Sunlight, part 59: the princess steals t…

Did the princess actually cut off his head?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: princess · What happens: cut off · To what, where: head

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1808 «pg641, Iliane and Sunlight, part 59: the princess steals the emperor's stud of mares» 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=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 cut	aux
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 princess	det
3	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 cut	nsubj
4	actually	actually	ADV	_	5 cut	advmod
5	cut	cut	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	off	off	ADP	_	5 cut	compound:prt
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 head	nmod:poss
8	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 cut	obj
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 cut	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cut off	past · do-support	the princess	his head				actually property	vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector head=Eventuality

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

Yeah, one hit when he turned

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 hit	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 hit	punct
3	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 hit	nummod
4	hit	hit	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	7 turned	advmod
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 turned	nsubj
7	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 hit	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	past	he						vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Nah, she spared him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 spared	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 spared	nsubj
4	spared	spare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 spared	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spare	past	she	him = he					vn bill-54.5 «NP V NP NP.asset»: agent=Agent he=Asset

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, one swoop when he lowered his sword

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 swoop	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 swoop	punct
3	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 swoop	nummod
4	swoop	swoop	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 lowered	obl
5	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	7 lowered	advmod
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 lowered	nsubj
7	lowered	lower	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 sword	nmod:poss
9	sword	sword	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 lowered	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lower	past	he	one swoop					vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sword=Theme

Option 4

Yeah, she cut him with an axe

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 cut	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 cut	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 cut	nsubj
4	cut	cut	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 cut	obj
6	with	with	ADP	_	8 axe	case
7	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 axe	det
8	axe	axe	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 cut	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cut	past	she	him = he				with a axe	vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient with axe=Instrument

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