Test 12 · ★ · The Book of Dragons, The Book of Beasts, part 1: Lionel is…

so the grave gents were the Chancellor and the Prime Minister, yeah?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be · To what, where: Chancellor

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 633 «The Book of Dragons, The Book of Beasts, part 1: Lionel is fetched from the nursery and made King» 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	_	4 gents	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 gents	det
3	grave	grave	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 gents	amod
4	gents	gent	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 Chancellor	cop
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Chancellor	det
7	Chancellor	Chancellor	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 gents	nmod
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 Minister	cc
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Minister	det
10	Prime	Prime	PROPN	_	11 Minister	compound
11	Minister	Minister	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 Chancellor	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 gents	punct
13	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 gents	discourse
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 gents	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the Chancellor and the Prime Minister					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 · ← Mova's choice

Yeah, they were the Bishop and the Lord Mayor

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 Bishop	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 Bishop	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 Bishop	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 Bishop	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Bishop	det
6	Bishop	Bishop	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 Mayor	cc
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Mayor	det
9	Lord	Lord	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 Mayor	compound
10	Mayor	Mayor	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Bishop	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	they	the Bishop and the Lord Mayor					tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, they were the Chancellor and PM

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 Chancellor	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 Chancellor	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 Chancellor	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 Chancellor	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Chancellor	det
6	Chancellor	Chancellor	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 PM	cc
8	PM	p.m.	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 Chancellor	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	they	the Chancellor and PM					tree rules

Option 3

Nah, they were the King's cousins

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	8 cousins	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 cousins	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 cousins	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 King	det
6	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 cousins	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 King	case
8	cousins	cousin	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	they	the King's cousins					tree rules

Option 4

Yeah, they were the Chancellor and the Prime Minister, who had come to fetch him from the nursery

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 Chancellor	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 Chancellor	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 Chancellor	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 Chancellor	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Chancellor	det
6	Chancellor	Chancellor	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 Minister	cc
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Minister	det
9	Prime	Prime	PROPN	_	10 Minister	compound
10	Minister	Minister	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Chancellor	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 come	punct
12	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 come	nsubj
13	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 come	aux
14	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 Chancellor	acl:relcl
15	to	to	PART	_	16 fetch	mark
16	fetch	fetch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 come	xcomp
17	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 fetch	obj
18	from	from	ADP	_	20 nursery	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 nursery	det
20	nursery	nursery	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 fetch	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	is a	past	they	the Chancellor and the Prime Minister		tree rules
2	come	past · perfect	the Chancellor and the Prime Minister			tree rules
3	fetch	to-infinitive	the Chancellor and the Prime Minister not said here	him = he	the nursery	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent he=Theme from nursery=Source

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