Test 11 · ★ · Tales of Many Lands, The Three Robes, part 1: the ogress p…

Did the minister trust them, or nah?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: minister · What happens: trust · To what, where: them

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 697 «Tales of Many Lands, The Three Robes, part 1: the ogress pays the youth, then the minister sets out to find a queen» 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	Did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 trust	aux
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 minister	det
3	minister	minister	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 trust	nsubj
4	trust	trust	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 trust	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 nah	punct
7	or	or	CCONJ	_	8 nah	cc
8	nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 trust	discourse
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 trust	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	trust	past · do-support	the minister	them = they					vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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

Nah, he refused, bruv

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 refused	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 refused	nsubj
4	refused	refuse	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 bruv	punct
6	bruv	bruv	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 refused	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	refuse	past	he	bruv					vn reject-77.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bruv=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Yeah, he was dead wary and asked her once

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 wary	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 wary	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 wary	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 wary	cop
5	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 wary	amod
6	wary	wary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 asked	cc
8	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 wary	conj
9	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 asked	iobj
10	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	8 asked	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	he					wary property	tree rules
2	ask speech: ask	past	he not said here		her = she			once property	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, he got dead keen and begged for her hand

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 got	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 got	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 got	nsubj
4	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 keen	amod
6	keen	keen	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 got	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 begged	cc
8	begged	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 got	conj
9	for	for	ADP	_	11 hand	case
10	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 hand	nmod:poss
11	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 begged	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	past	he	dead keen					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer keen=Stimulus
2	beg speech: request	past	he not said here					for her hand	vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V PP.Topic»: agent=Agent for hand=Topic

Option 4

Nah, he got dead keen but she said no, innit

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 got	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 got	nsubj
4	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 keen	amod
6	keen	keen	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 got	obj
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	9 said	cc
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 said	nsubj
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 got	conj
10	no	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	9 said	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 got	punct
12	innit	innit	INTJ	_	4 got	discourse

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	past	he	dead keen					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer keen=Stimulus
2	say speech: assert	past	she						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent no=Topic

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