Test 8 · ★ · Tales for Young Folks, The Barmecide Feast, part 15: poor…

so Genghis Khan's hawk was the real hero, yeah?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: hawk · What happens: be · To what, where: real hero

This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 355 «Tales for Young Folks, The Barmecide Feast, part 15: poor Schacabac is treated to a pretend feast by a rich old man» 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	so	so	ADV	_	9 hero	advmod
2	Genghis	Genghis	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 hawk	nmod:poss
3	Khan	Khan	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Genghis	flat
4	's	's	PART	_	2 Genghis	case
5	hawk	hawk	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 hero	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 hero	cop
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 hero	det
8	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 hero	amod
9	hero	hero	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 hero	punct
11	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	9 hero	discourse
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 hero	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	Genghis's hawk	the real hero					tree rules

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

Nah, it was the snake

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 snake	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 snake	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 snake	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 snake	det
6	snake	snake	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	it	the snake					tree rules

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Yeah, it found the spring and saved the king from certain death

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 found	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 found	nsubj
4	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 spring	det
6	spring	spring	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 found	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 saved	cc
8	saved	save	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 found	conj
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 king	det
10	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 saved	obj
11	from	from	ADP	_	13 death	case
12	certain	certain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 death	amod
13	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 saved	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	find	past	it				spring		vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
2	save	past		the king		certain death			vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent king=Theme from death=Source

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, it saved his life

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 saved	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 saved	nsubj
4	saved	save	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 life	nmod:poss
6	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 saved	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	save	past	it	his life					vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Theme

Option 4

Nah, the king was the real hero because he killed the snake himself

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	8 hero	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 king	det
4	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 hero	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 hero	cop
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 hero	det
7	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 hero	amod
8	hero	hero	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	because	because	SCONJ	_	11 killed	mark
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 killed	nsubj
11	killed	kill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 hero	advcl
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 snake	det
13	snake	snake	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 killed	obj
14	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	11 killed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	the king	the real hero					tree rules
2	kill	past	king	the snake				king obl	vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent snake=Theme

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