Test 11 · ★ · Tales of Honor, Damon and Pythias: a friend offers to take…

ngl the soldier was kinda wack, right? what did he do wrong?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, soldier, he · What happens: ngl, be, do

This is test 11 · ★ 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	ngl	ngl	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 soldier	det
3	soldier	soldier	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 wack	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 wack	cop
5	kinda	kinda	ADV	_	6 wack	advmod
6	wack	wack	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 ngl	ccomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 ngl	punct
8	right	right	INTJ	_	1 ngl	discourse
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 ngl	punct
10	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	13 do	obj
11	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 do	aux
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 do	nsubj
13	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 ngl	conj
14	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 do	advmod
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 ngl	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	ngl	imperative	you not said here		tree rules
2	is	past	the soldier	kinda, wack property	tree rules
3	do	past · do-support	he		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality

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

He lied to the king

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 lied	nsubj
2	lied	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	5 king	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 king	det
5	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 lied	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lie	past	He					to the king	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Lied and grabbed the farm

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Lied	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 grabbed	cc
3	grabbed	grab	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Lied	conj
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 farm	det
5	farm	farm	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 grabbed	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lie	past							vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	grab	past		the farm					vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent farm=Theme

Option 3

He lied

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 lied	nsubj
2	lied	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lie	past	He						vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Stole it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Stole	steal	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Stole	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	steal	past		it					vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme

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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