Test 9 · ★ · Stories of Old England, King Canute on the Seashore: Canut…

Why did he say he would never wear it again, innit?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: he · What happens: say, not wear, innit · To what, where: it · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 342 «Stories of Old England, King Canute on the Seashore: Canute orders the sea to stop and gets soaked» 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	4 say	advmod
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 say	aux
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 say	nsubj
4	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 wear	nsubj
6	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 wear	aux
7	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	8 wear	advmod
8	wear	wear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 say	ccomp
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 wear	obj
10	again	again	ADV	_	8 wear	advmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 innit	punct
12	innit	innit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 say	conj
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 say	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past · do-support	he			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	not wear	would	he	it	again	vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Theme
3	innit	infinitive	he not said here			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

It was too heavy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 heavy	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 heavy	cop
3	too	too	ADV	_	4 heavy	advmod
4	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	It					heavy property	tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

He learned only one King rules the sea

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 learned	nsubj
2	learned	learn	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	only	only	ADV	_	4 one	advmod
4	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 rules	nummod
5	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 rules	compound
6	rules	rule	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 learned	obj
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 sea	det
8	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 learned	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	learn	past	He	one King rules					tree rules

Option 3

He thought it was silly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 thought	nsubj
2	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 silly	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 silly	cop
5	silly	silly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 thought	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	He						vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	it					silly property	tree rules

Option 4

It got soaked and ruined

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 soaked	nsubj:pass
2	got	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 soaked	aux:pass
3	soaked	soak	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 ruined	cc
5	ruined	ruin	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 soaked	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	soak	past · passive		It					vn wipe_manner-10.4.1 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme
2	ruin	participle							vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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