Test 8 · ★ · Book of Dragons, Prince Tiresome, part 2: the dragon eats…

Why'd the Prince nick Elfin's reward, though?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: nick Elfin · What happens: reward

This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 655 «Book of Dragons, Prince Tiresome, part 2: the dragon eats the hunt, then bursts out of a sealed bottle» 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	8 reward	advmod
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 reward	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Elfin	det
4	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 nick	compound
5	nick	Nick	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Elfin	compound
6	Elfin	Elfin	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 reward	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 Elfin	case
8	reward	reward	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 reward	punct
10	though	though	SCONJ	_	8 reward	nmod
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 reward	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	reward		the nick Elfin						nom reward «event 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

He never meant to keep his word from the very start, because he thought a pig keeper meant nothing

The tree, 19 words

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	3 meant	nsubj
2	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	3 meant	advmod
3	meant	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 keep	mark
5	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 meant	xcomp
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 word	nmod:poss
7	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 keep	obj
8	from	from	ADP	_	11 start	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 start	det
10	very	very	ADV	_	11 start	advmod
11	start	start	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 keep	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 thought	punct
13	because	because	SCONJ	_	15 thought	mark
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 thought	nsubj
15	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 meant	conj
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 keeper	det
17	pig	pig	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 keeper	compound
18	keeper	keeper	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 meant	nsubj
19	meant	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 thought	ccomp
20	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	19 meant	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	not mean	past	He			vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	keep not said to happen	to-infinitive	He not said here	his word	the start	vn forbid-64.4 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer word=Beneficiary from start=Eventuality
3	think speech: other	past	he			vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
4	mean	past	a pig keeper	nothing		vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Topic
5	word		his = he			nom word «communication transitive»: poss=agent

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

He never meant to keep his word, and he thought Elfin was too poor to complain about it

The tree, 18 words

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	3 meant	nsubj
2	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	3 meant	advmod
3	meant	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 keep	mark
5	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 meant	xcomp
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 word	nmod:poss
7	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 keep	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 thought	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 thought	cc
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 thought	nsubj
11	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 meant	conj
12	Elfin	Elfin	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 poor	nsubj
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 poor	cop
14	too	too	ADV	_	15 poor	advmod
15	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 thought	ccomp
16	to	to	PART	_	17 complain	mark
17	complain	complain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 poor	advcl
18	about	about	ADP	_	19 it	case
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 complain	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not mean	past	He			vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	keep not said to happen	to-infinitive	He not said here	his word		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Theme
3	think speech: other	past	he			vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	is	past	Elfin		poor property	tree rules
5	complain speech: other	to-infinitive	Elfin not said here		about word	vn complain-37.8 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about it=Topic
6	word		his = he			nom word «communication transitive»: poss=agent

Option 3

He forgot about the promise

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 forgot	nsubj
2	forgot	forget	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	about	about	ADP	_	5 promise	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 promise	det
5	promise	promise	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 forgot	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	forget	past	He					about the promise	tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

He never meant to keep his word

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	3 meant	nsubj
2	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	3 meant	advmod
3	meant	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 keep	mark
5	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 meant	xcomp
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 word	nmod:poss
7	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 keep	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	not mean	past	He		vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	keep not said to happen	to-infinitive	He not said here	his word	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Theme
3	word		his = he		nom word «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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