Test 9 · ★ · Wonder Book, Circe's Palace, part 25: Ulysses goes alone t…

is Ulysses cool with his crew staying?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: crew · What happens: be, stay

This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 2066 «Wonder Book, Circe's Palace, part 25: Ulysses goes alone to the palace and Quicksilver gives him a magic flower» 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	3 cool	cop
2	Ulysses	Ulysses	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 cool	compound
3	cool	cool	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	with	with	SCONJ	_	7 staying	mark
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 crew	nmod:poss
6	crew	crew	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 staying	nsubj
7	staying	stay	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 cool	advcl
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 cool	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						cool property	tree rules
2	stay	gerund	his crew						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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 · ✓ the right answer

nah, they begged him, he went anyway

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 begged	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 begged	nsubj
4	begged	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 begged	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 went	punct
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 went	nsubj
8	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 begged	conj
9	anyway	anyway	ADV	_	8 went	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	beg speech: request	past	they		him = he				vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
2	go	past	he					anyway property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

nah, they stayed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 stayed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 stayed	nsubj
4	stayed	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stay	past	they						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

no, they begged, and he left

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	no	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 begged	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 begged	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 begged	nsubj
4	begged	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 left	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 left	cc
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 left	nsubj
8	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 begged	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	beg speech: request	past	they						vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V PP.Topic»: agent=Agent
2	leave	past	he						vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

nah, they pleaded, but he went

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 pleaded	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 pleaded	nsubj
4	pleaded	plead	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 went	punct
6	but	but	CCONJ	_	8 went	cc
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 went	nsubj
8	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 pleaded	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	plead speech: request	past	they						tree rules
2	go	past	he						vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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