Test 11 · ★ · Old English Tales, Robin Hood and Allin-a-Dale: Robin Hood…

Real talk, what would Robin do to anyone messing with the bride?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Robin · What happens: do, mess · To what, where: Real talk

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 344 «Old English Tales, Robin Hood and Allin-a-Dale: Robin Hood helps a sad young man win back his bride from a rich old suitor» 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	Real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 talk	amod
2	talk	talk	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 do	punct
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 do	obj
5	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 do	aux
6	Robin	Robin	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 do	nsubj
7	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 talk	acl:relcl
8	to	to	ADP	_	9 anyone	case
9	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	7 do	obl
10	messing	mess	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 anyone	acl
11	with	with	ADP	_	13 bride	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 bride	det
13	bride	bride	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 messing	obl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 talk	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	would	Robin	Real talk				to anyone	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality
2	mess	gerund						with the bride	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 · ✓ the right answer

Deal with them himself

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Deal	deal	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	with	with	ADP	_	3 them	case
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Deal	obl
4	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	1 Deal	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	deal	imperative	you not said here	himself = he				with them = they	vn cope-83 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent with they=Theme

Option 2

Hunt them down alone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hunt	hunt	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Hunt	obj
3	down	down	ADP	_	1 Hunt	compound:prt
4	alone	alone	ADV	_	1 Hunt	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hunt down	imperative	you not said here	them = they				alone property	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme

Option 3

Take the bride back and punish them with his own bare hands

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Take	take	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 bride	det
3	bride	bride	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Take	obj
4	back	back	ADV	_	1 Take	advmod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 punish	cc
6	punish	punish	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Take	conj
7	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 punish	obj
8	with	with	ADP	_	12 hands	case
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 hands	nmod:poss
10	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 hands	amod
11	bare	bare	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 hands	amod
12	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 punish	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take back	imperative	you not said here		the bride				vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument bride=Destination
2	punish	infinitive	you not said here	them = they				with his own bare hands	vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP PP.theme PP.attribute»: agent=Agent they=Patient with hand=Theme

Option 4

Fight them on his own

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fight	fight	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Fight	obj
3	on	on	ADP	_	5 own	case
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 own	nmod:poss
5	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Fight	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fight	imperative	you not said here	them = they		his own			vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Co-Agent

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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