Test 2 · ★ · Yellow Fairy Book, The Magic Horse: music saves the youth…

Bruv, the groom's a proper snake. What lie does he tell about the youth?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: groom, lie · What happens: be, tell · To what, where: proper snake · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 683 «Yellow Fairy Book, The Magic Horse: music saves the youth from the gallows, and he is 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

Sentence 1: Bruv, the groom's a proper snake.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Bruv	Bruv	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 snake	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 groom	det
4	groom	groom	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 snake	nsubj
5	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 snake	cop
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 snake	det
7	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 snake	amod
8	snake	snake	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Bruv	appos
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Bruv	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the groom	a proper snake					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.

Sentence 2: What lie does he tell about the youth?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	DET	PronType=Int	2 lie	det
2	lie	lie	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 tell	nsubj
3	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 tell	aux
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 tell	nsubj
5	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	about	about	ADP	_	8 youth	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 youth	det
8	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 tell	obl
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 tell	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	present · do-support	what lie					about the youth	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent about youth=Topic

The options

Option 1

That he can find the lost war horse hidden in the mountains beyond the sea

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 find	nsubj
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 find	nsubj
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 find	aux
4	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 horse	det
6	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 horse	amod
7	war	war	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 horse	compound
8	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 find	obj
9	hidden	hide	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 horse	acl
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 mountains	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 mountains	det
12	mountains	mountain	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 hidden	obl
13	beyond	beyond	ADP	_	15 sea	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 sea	det
15	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 hidden	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	find	can	That	the lost war horse			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Topic
2	lose	participle					vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	hide	participle		the lost war horse not said here	the mountains	beyond the sea	vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in mountain=Location

Option 2

That he can ride the wild stallion

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 ride	nsubj
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 ride	nsubj
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 ride	aux
4	ride	ride	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 stallion	det
6	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 stallion	amod
7	stallion	stallion	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 ride	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ride	can	That	the wild stallion					vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stallion=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

That he can find the lost war horse

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 find	nsubj
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 find	nsubj
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 find	aux
4	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 horse	det
6	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 horse	amod
7	war	war	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 horse	compound
8	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 find	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	find	can	That	the lost war horse					vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Topic
2	lose	participle							vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

That he can find the lost war horse and bring it back to the palace in three days

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 find	nsubj
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 find	nsubj
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 find	aux
4	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 horse	det
6	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 horse	amod
7	war	war	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 horse	compound
8	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 find	obj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 bring	cc
10	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 find	conj
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 bring	obj
12	back	back	ADV	_	10 bring	advmod
13	to	to	ADP	_	15 palace	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 palace	det
15	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 bring	obl
16	in	in	ADP	_	18 days	case
17	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	18 days	nummod
18	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 palace	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	find	can	That	the lost war horse		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Topic
2	lose	participle				vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	bring back	infinitive	That not said here	horse	the palace in three days	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme to palace=Destination

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