Test 1 · ★ · Fifty Famous Stories Retold, King Alfred and the Beggar, p…

yo, did Alfred really have to hide on some random island?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: do, have, hide · To what, where: Alfred, random island

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 341 «Fifty Famous Stories Retold, King Alfred and the Beggar, part 1: Alfred shares his last bread and wine, then sees a vision» 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	yo	yo	INTJ	_	3 did	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yo	punct
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	Alfred	Alfred	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 did	obj
5	really	really	ADV	_	6 have	advmod
6	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 did	advcl
7	to	to	PART	_	8 hide	mark
8	hide	hide	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 have	xcomp
9	on	on	ADP	_	12 island	case
10	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	12 island	det
11	random	random	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 island	amod
12	island	island	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 hide	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	where	roles by
1	do	past	Alfred		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent alfred=Eventuality
2	have	present			tree rules
3	hide	to-infinitive		some random island	vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on island=Location

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, the Danes kicked him out of his place, for real

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 kicked	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 kicked	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Danes	det
4	Danes	Dane	PROPN	Number=Plur	5 kicked	nsubj
5	kicked	kick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 kicked	obj
7	out	out	ADP	_	10 place	case
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 place	case
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 place	nmod:poss
10	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 kicked	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 real	punct
12	for	for	ADP	_	13 real	case
13	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 kicked	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	kick	past	the Danes	him = he		his place			vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent he=Patient out place=Location

Option 2

yeah, he hid, no cap

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 hid	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 hid	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 hid	nsubj
4	hid	hide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 hid	punct
6	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	7 cap	det
7	cap	cap	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hid	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hide	past	he	no cap					vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cap=Patient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

yeah, the Danes chased him off his land, no cap

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 chased	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 chased	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Danes	det
4	Danes	Dane	PROPN	Number=Plur	5 chased	nsubj
5	chased	chase	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 chased	obj
7	off	off	ADP	_	5 chased	compound:prt
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 land	nmod:poss
9	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 chased	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 cap	punct
11	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	12 cap	det
12	cap	cap	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 land	appos

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chase off	past	the Danes	him = he					tree rules

Option 4

nah, the Saxons pushed him out of the town, fr

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 pushed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Saxons	det
4	Saxons	Saxon	PROPN	Number=Plur	5 pushed	nsubj
5	pushed	push	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 pushed	obj
7	out	out	ADP	_	10 town	case
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 town	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 town	det
10	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 pushed	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 fr	punct
12	fr	fr	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 town	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	push	past	the Saxons	him = he		the town and fr			vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent he=Theme out town=Trajectory

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