Test 14 · ★ · Jurgen, Jurgen, part 177: Jurgen leaves Martin's house and…

Why did the blood on his sleeve matter, no lie?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: his · What happens: do, matter · To what, where: blood, sleeve matter

This is test 14 · ★ of lesson 966 «Jurgen, Jurgen, part 177: Jurgen leaves Martin's house and is jailed for Martin's murder» 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	2 did	advmod
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 blood	det
4	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 did	obj
5	on	on	ADP	_	8 matter	case
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 matter	nmod:poss
7	sleeve	sleeve	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 matter	compound
8	matter	matter	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 did	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 lie	punct
10	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	11 lie	det
11	lie	lie	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 matter	conj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past		the blood		his sleeve matter and no lie			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent blood=Eventuality
2	matter		his = he						nom matter «cognition intransitive»: 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 · ← Mova's choice

it proved him guilty to the men and the judge

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 proved	nsubj
2	proved	prove	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 proved	obj
4	guilty	guilty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 proved	xcomp
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 men	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 men	det
7	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 guilty	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 judge	cc
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 judge	det
10	judge	judge	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 men	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	prove	past	it	him = he				guilty property	vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

it proved him guilty to them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 proved	nsubj
2	proved	prove	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 proved	obj
4	guilty	guilty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 proved	xcomp
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 them	case
6	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 guilty	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	prove	past	it	him = he				guilty property	vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme

Option 3

they found it on his coat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 found	nsubj
2	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 found	obj
4	on	on	ADP	_	6 coat	case
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 coat	nmod:poss
6	coat	coat	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 found	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	find	past	they	it		his coat			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic

Option 4

it proved him guilty to everyone in the room

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 proved	nsubj
2	proved	prove	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 proved	obj
4	guilty	guilty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 everyone	case
5	to	to	ADP	_	4 guilty	fixed
6	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	2 proved	obl
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 room	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 room	det
9	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 everyone	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	prove	past	it	him = he				guilty everyone	vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme

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