Test 9 · ★ · Tales of Honor, Damon and Pythias: a friend offers to take…

hold up, what did Alexander say he could do?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, Alexander · What happens: hold up, say, do · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 9 · ★ 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	hold	hold	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	up	up	ADP	_	1 hold	compound:prt
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 say	punct
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 say	obj
5	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 say	aux
6	Alexander	Alexander	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 say	nsubj
7	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 hold	conj
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 do	nsubj
9	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 do	aux
10	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 say	ccomp
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 hold	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	roles by
1	hold up	imperative	you not said here	vn support-15.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot
2	say speech: assert	past · do-support	Alexander	tree rules
3	do	could	Alexander	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: 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 · ← Mova's choice

Ride it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ride	ride	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Ride	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ride	imperative	you not said here	it					vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent it=Location

Option 2

Tame the wild horse and win the king's favor forever

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tame	tame	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 horse	det
3	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 horse	amod
4	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Tame	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 win	cc
6	win	win	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Tame	conj
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 king	det
8	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 favor	nmod:poss
9	's	's	PART	_	8 king	case
10	favor	favor	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 win	obj
11	forever	forever	ADV	_	6 win	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	tame	imperative	you not said here	the wild horse		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent horse=Patient
2	win	present	you not said here	the king's favor	forever property	vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent favor=Eventuality
3	favor		the king			nom favor «act transitive»: poss=agent

Option 3

Tame the horse and then ride it all the way to Athens

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tame	tame	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 horse	det
3	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Tame	obj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 ride	cc
5	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 ride	advmod
6	ride	ride	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Tame	conj
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 ride	obj
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	10 way	det:predet
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 way	det
10	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 ride	obl:unmarked
11	to	to	ADP	_	12 Athens	case
12	Athens	Athens	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 ride	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tame	imperative	you not said here	the horse					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent horse=Patient
2	ride	infinitive	you not said here	horse	Athens		then	all way obl:unmarked	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent it=Location

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Tame the horse

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tame	tame	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 horse	det
3	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Tame	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tame	imperative	you not said here	the horse					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent horse=Patient

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