Test 9 · ★ · Magyar Folk Tales, The Prince And The Dragon, part 13: the…

why did the lad not even look at the witch?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: not look

This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 673 «Magyar Folk Tales, The Prince And The Dragon, part 13: the youngest prince refuses the hare and the old woman hunts the dragon's secret» 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	7 look	advmod
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 look	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 lad	det
4	lad	lad	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 did	obj
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 look	advmod
6	even	even	ADV	_	7 look	advmod
7	look	look	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	at	at	ADP	_	10 witch	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 witch	det
10	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 look	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 look	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not look	past · do-support						at the witch	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at witch=Theme

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 was too proud

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	4 proud	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 proud	cop
3	too	too	ADV	_	4 proud	advmod
4	proud	proud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	He					proud property	tree rules

Option 2

He was thinking about the king's gold

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 thinking	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 thinking	aux
3	thinking	think	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	about	about	ADP	_	8 gold	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 king	det
6	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 gold	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 king	case
8	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 thinking	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past · progressive	He					about the king's gold	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about gold=Topic

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

He had no reason to look at her

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 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 reason	det
4	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 had	obj
5	to	to	PART	_	6 look	mark
6	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 reason	acl
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 her	case
8	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 look	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	He	no reason					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reason=Patient
2	look	to-infinitive	He not said here	no reason not said here				at her = she	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at she=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

His sword was clanking, he was busy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 sword	nmod:poss
2	sword	sword	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 clanking	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 clanking	aux
4	clanking	clank	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 clanking	punct
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 busy	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 busy	cop
8	busy	busy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 clanking	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	clank	past · progressive	His sword						vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	past	sword					busy property	tree rules

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