Test 10 · ★ · Tales of Honor, Damon and Pythias: a friend offers to take…

fr, what did the tyrant say he'd trade all his cash for?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: fr · What happens: do, say, trade, cash · To what, where: tyrant, cash · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 353 «Tales of Honor, Damon and Pythias: a friend offers to take his friend's place in prison» 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	fr	fr	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 say	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 fr	acl:relcl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 tyrant	det
6	tyrant	tyrant	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obj
7	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 trade	nsubj
9	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 trade	aux
10	trade	trade	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 say	ccomp
11	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	13 cash	det:predet
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 cash	nmod:poss
13	cash	cash	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 trade	obj
14	for	for	ADP	_	10 trade	obl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 say	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	do	past	fr	the tyrant	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tyrant=Eventuality
2	say speech: assert	present	fr		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	trade	would	fr	fr's cash	vn exchange-13.6.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cash=Theme
4	cash		fr		nom cash «possession transitive»: poss=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

His crown and throne

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 crown	nmod:poss
2	crown	crown	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 throne	cc
4	throne	throne	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 crown	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	crown		His = he						nom crown «communication transitive»: poss=agent

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

All his cash for one friend like that and more

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 cash	det:predet
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 cash	nmod:poss
3	cash	cash	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	for	for	ADP	_	6 friend	case
5	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 friend	nummod
6	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 cash	nmod
7	like	like	ADP	_	8 that	case
8	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 friend	nmod
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 more	cc
10	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 cash	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cash		his = he					for one friend like that	nom cash «possession transitive»: poss=agent for=obl

Option 3

One true friend like Damon

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 friend	nummod
2	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 friend	amod
3	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	like	like	ADP	_	5 Damon	case
5	Damon	Damon	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 friend	nmod

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

One friend like that

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 friend	nummod
2	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	like	like	ADP	_	4 that	case
4	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 friend	nmod

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

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