Test 1 · Castles, knights and cathedrals

my brother says knights were so heavy they got put on horses with a crane lol

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: brother, knights · What happens: say, be, put · To what, where: knights · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 1 of lesson 21 «Castles, knights and cathedrals» of the history 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	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 brother	nmod:poss
2	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 says	nsubj
3	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	knights	knight	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 heavy	nsubj
5	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 heavy	cop
6	so	so	ADV	_	7 heavy	advmod
7	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 says	ccomp
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 put	nsubj
9	got	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 put	aux:pass
10	put	put	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 heavy	acl:relcl
11	on	on	ADP	_	12 horses	case
12	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 put	obl
13	with	with	ADP	_	15 crane	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 crane	det
15	crane	crane	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 put	obl
16	lol	lol	INTJ	_	3 says	discourse

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	my brother			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	knights		heavy property	tree rules
3	put	past · passive		knights = knight	on horses; with a crane	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: subject=Theme on horse=Destination

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

Yes, but only on Sundays

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 Sundays	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	but	but	CCONJ	_	6 Sundays	cc
4	only	only	ADV	_	6 Sundays	advmod
5	on	on	ADP	_	6 Sundays	case
6	Sundays	Sunday	PROPN	Number=Plur	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

No, a knight in plate armour could climb on by himself

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	9 climb	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 knight	det
4	knight	knight	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 climb	nsubj
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 armour	case
6	plate	plate	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 armour	compound
7	armour	armour	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 knight	nmod
8	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 climb	aux
9	climb	climb	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
10	on	on	ADP	_	9 climb	compound:prt
11	by	by	ADP	_	12 himself	case
12	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	9 climb	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	climb on	could	a knight in plate armour					by knight	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by himself=Trajectory

Option 3

No, knights never rode horses

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	5 rode	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	knights	knight	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 rode	nsubj
4	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	5 rode	advmod
5	rode	ride	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 rode	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not ride	past	knights	horses					vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Theme

Option 4

Yes, every knight needed a crane

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 needed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	4 knight	det
4	knight	knight	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 needed	nsubj
5	needed	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 crane	det
7	crane	crane	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 needed	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	need	past	every knight	a crane					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot crane=Theme

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