Test 8 · ★ · Brave Deeds, The Soldier and the Swede, part 7: a soldier…

Like, what did Gilbert say on the deck, no cap?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Gilbert · What happens: say · To what, where: deck · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 347 «Brave Deeds, The Soldier and the Swede, part 7: a soldier spares a wounded enemy, and English heroes and a little Indian girl show courage» 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	Like	like	INTJ	_	6 say	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Like	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 say	obj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 say	aux
5	Gilbert	Gilbert	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 say	nsubj
6	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	on	on	ADP	_	9 deck	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 deck	det
9	deck	deck	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 say	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 cap	punct
11	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	12 cap	det
12	cap	cap	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 deck	appos
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 say	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past · do-support	Gilbert			the deck			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic

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

Hold on!

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hold	hold	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	on	on	ADP	_	1 Hold	compound:prt
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	1 Hold	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hold on	imperative	you not said here						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

Look to the sea!

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Look	look	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	to	to	ADP	_	4 sea	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 sea	det
4	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Look	obl
5	!	!	PUNCT	_	1 Look	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	imperative	you not said here					to the sea	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to sea=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Be brave, my friends!

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	2 brave	cop
2	brave	brave	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 friends	punct
4	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 friends	nmod:poss
5	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 brave	conj
6	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 brave	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	imperative	you not said here					brave property	tree rules

Option 4

Be brave, my friends, the storm will pass soon!

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	2 brave	cop
2	brave	brave	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 friends	amod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 friends	punct
4	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 friends	nmod:poss
5	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 pass	nsubj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 friends	punct
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 storm	det
8	storm	storm	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 pass	nsubj
9	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 pass	aux
10	pass	pass	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
11	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	10 pass	advmod
12	!	!	PUNCT	_	10 pass	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	infinitive						brave property	tree rules
2	pass	future	my brave friends					soon property	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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