Test 6 · ★ · Fifty Famous Stories, The Story of Cincinnatus: a plowman…

ngl, what did Napoleon say a real winner never says?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Napoleon, real winner · What happens: say, not say · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 350 «Fifty Famous Stories, The Story of Cincinnatus: a plowman leaves his field to save Rome and then gives back his power» 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	ngl	ngl	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 say	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 ngl	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	Napoleon	Napoleon	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 say	nsubj
6	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 winner	det
8	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 winner	amod
9	winner	winner	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 says	nsubj
10	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	11 says	advmod
11	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 say	parataxis
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 say	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past · do-support	Napoleon					ngl vocative	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic
2	not say speech: assert	present	a real winner						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

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 · ✓ the right answer

Impossible

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Impossible	impossible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2

Surrender

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Surrender	surrender	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Retreat when the enemy outnumbers your men

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Retreat	retreat	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	when	when	SCONJ	_	5 outnumbers	mark
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 enemy	det
4	enemy	enemy	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 outnumbers	nsubj
5	outnumbers	outnumber	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Retreat	advcl
6	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 men	nmod:poss
7	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 outnumbers	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	retreat	imperative	you not said here						vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
2	outnumber	present	the enemy	your men					vn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot man=Theme

Option 4

Give up when things look too hard to bear

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Give	give	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	up	up	ADP	_	1 Give	compound:prt
3	when	when	SCONJ	_	5 look	mark
4	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 look	nsubj
5	look	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Give	advcl
6	too	too	ADV	_	7 hard	advmod
7	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 look	xcomp
8	to	to	PART	_	9 bear	mark
9	bear	bear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 hard	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	give up	imperative	you not said here		vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	look	present	things	hard property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
3	bear	to-infinitive	things not said here		vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer

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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