Test 11 · ★ · Viking Tales, Helga, part 103: the frog frees the priest,…

Why'd he make her sit behind him?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: he, her · What happens: make, sit · To what, where: her

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 892 «Viking Tales, Helga, part 103: the frog frees the priest, and at sunrise Helga turns back into a girl» 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	4 make	advmod
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 make	aux
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 make	nsubj
4	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 make	obj
6	sit	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 make	xcomp
7	behind	behind	ADP	_	8 him	case
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 sit	obl
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 make	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	would	he	her = she					tree rules
2	sit	infinitive	her = she not said here					behind him = he	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent behind he=Location

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

Cos she was too heavy to ride

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cos	cos	SCONJ	_	5 heavy	mark
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 heavy	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 heavy	cop
4	too	too	ADV	_	5 heavy	advmod
5	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 ride	mark
7	ride	ride	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 heavy	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	she					heavy property	tree rules
2	ride	to-infinitive	she not said here						vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

Cos she asked him to

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cos	cos	SCONJ	_	3 asked	mark
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 asked	nsubj
3	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 asked	iobj
5	to	to	PART	_	3 asked	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	past	she		him = he				vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient

Option 3

Cos the horse liked her more

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cos	cos	SCONJ	_	3 horse	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 horse	det
3	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 liked	obl
4	liked	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 liked	obj
6	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	4 liked	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	like	past		horse				cos the horse	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot she=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Cos her magic beauty is evil

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cos	cos	SCONJ	_	4 beauty	case
2	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 beauty	nmod:poss
3	magic	magic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 beauty	amod
4	beauty	beauty	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 evil	obl
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 evil	cop
6	evil	evil	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						cos her magic beauty; evil property	tree rules

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