Test 9 · ★ · Madame d'Aulnoy's Fairy Tales, Prince Mannikin, part 28: M…

Is the Ambassador dead sure of himself, or what?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: Ambassador · What happens: be

This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 1891 «Madame d'Aulnoy's Fairy Tales, Prince Mannikin, part 28: Mannikin wins the joust and the Ambassador's insolent letter arrives» 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	Is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 sure	cop
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 sure	det
3	Ambassador	Ambassador	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 sure	nsubj
4	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 sure	amod
5	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 himself	case
7	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	5 sure	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 what	punct
9	or	or	CCONJ	_	10 what	cc
10	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 sure	ccomp
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 sure	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Ambassador					of Ambassador; sure property	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

yeah, he reckons he's a fool

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 reckons	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 reckons	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 reckons	nsubj
4	reckons	reckon	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 fool	nsubj
6	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 fool	cop
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 fool	det
8	fool	fool	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 reckons	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	reckon	present	he						vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
2	is a	present	he	a fool					tree rules

Option 2

yeah, he's dead proud

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 proud	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yeah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 proud	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 proud	cop
5	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 proud	amod
6	proud	proud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	he					proud property	tree rules

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

yeah, he reckons nobody can beat him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 reckons	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 reckons	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 reckons	nsubj
4	reckons	reckon	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	7 beat	nsubj
6	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 beat	aux
7	beat	beat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 reckons	ccomp
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 beat	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	reckon	present	he						vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	beat	can	nobody	him = he					vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location he=Theme

Option 4

nah, he reckons he's beaten

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 reckons	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 reckons	nsubj
4	reckons	reckon	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 beaten	nsubj
6	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 beaten	aux:pass
7	beaten	beat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 reckons	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	reckon	present	he						vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	beat	present · passive		he					vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme

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