Test 11 · ★ · The Heroes, Theseus, part 3: Theseus lifts the great stone…

Why were the nephews gonna cause trouble for him?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be · To what, where: nephews gonna

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 2044 «The Heroes, Theseus, part 3: Theseus lifts the great stone, finds his father's sword and sandals, and sets out for Athens» 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	5 gonna	advmod
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 gonna	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 gonna	det
4	nephews	nephew	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 gonna	compound
5	gonna	gonna	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	cause	cause	SCONJ	_	7 trouble	case
7	trouble	trouble	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 gonna	nmod
8	for	for	ADP	_	9 him	case
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 trouble	nmod
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 gonna	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the nephews gonna				cause trouble for him	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

Cos he'd beat up their mates and then go and nick the throne

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cos	cos	SCONJ	_	4 beat	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 beat	nsubj
3	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 beat	aux
4	beat	beat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	up	up	ADP	_	4 beat	compound:prt
6	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 mates	nmod:poss
7	mates	mate	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 beat	obj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 go	cc
9	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	10 go	advmod
10	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 beat	conj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 nick	cc
12	nick	nick	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 beat	conj
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 throne	det
14	throne	throne	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 nick	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	beat up	would	he	their mates		vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location mate=Theme
2	go	infinitive	he not said here		then	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	nick	infinitive	he not said here	the throne		vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent throne=Patient

Option 2

Cos he'd wreck their plans, innit

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cos	cos	SCONJ	_	4 wreck	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 wreck	nsubj
3	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 wreck	aux
4	wreck	wreck	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 innit	compound
5	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 plans	nmod:poss
6	plans	plan	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 wreck	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 wreck	punct
8	innit	innit	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wreck	would	he	their plans					vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plan=Patient
2	plan		their = they						nom plan «cognition transitive»: poss=agent

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Cos he'd stop them nicking the crown

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cos	cos	SCONJ	_	4 stop	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 stop	nsubj
3	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 stop	aux
4	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 stop	obj
6	nicking	nick	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 stop	xcomp
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 crown	det
8	crown	crown	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 nicking	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stop	would	he	them = they					tree rules
2	nick	gerund	he not said here	the crown					vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crown=Patient

Option 4

Cos he'd stop them nicking the crown and the whole palace from them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cos	cos	SCONJ	_	4 stop	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 stop	nsubj
3	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 stop	aux
4	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 stop	obj
6	nicking	nick	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 stop	xcomp
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 crown	det
8	crown	crown	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 nicking	obj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 palace	cc
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 palace	det
11	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 palace	amod
12	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 crown	conj
13	from	from	ADP	_	14 them	case
14	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 palace	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stop	would	he	them = they					tree rules
2	nick	gerund	he not said here	the crown and the whole palace from crown					vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crown=Patient

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