Test 6 · ★ · Vikings, knights and the Middle Ages

Theo: "Shut up, he's real, I've been to Sherwood Forest!" What's the honest reply?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Theo, I, honest reply · What happens: shut up, be

This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 18 «Vikings, knights and the Middle Ages» of the myths 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: Theo: "Shut up, he's real, I've been to Sherwood Forest!"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Theo	Theo	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Shut	nsubj
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	4 Shut	punct
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 Shut	punct
4	Shut	shut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	up	up	ADP	_	4 Shut	compound:prt
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 real	punct
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 real	nsubj
8	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 real	cop
9	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 Shut	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 Forest	punct
11	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 Forest	nsubj
12	've	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 Forest	aux
13	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	16 Forest	cop
14	to	to	ADP	_	16 Forest	case
15	Sherwood	Sherwood	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 Forest	compound
16	Forest	Forest	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 real	obl
17	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 Shut	punct
18	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 Shut	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	shut up in a quote	participle	Theo		vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	is in a quote	present	Theo	real property	tree rules
3	is in a quote	present · perfect	I	to Sherwood Forest	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's the honest reply?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 reply	det
4	honest	honest	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 reply	amod
5	reply	reply	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the honest reply						tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

If the forest is real then he must be real too, that's how it works

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	If	if	SCONJ	_	5 real	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 forest	det
3	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 real	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 real	cop
5	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 works	advcl
6	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	10 real	advmod
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 real	nsubj
8	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 real	aux
9	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	10 real	cop
10	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 real	advcl
11	too	too	ADV	_	10 real	advmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 real	punct
13	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	15 how	nsubj
14	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 how	cop
15	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	17 works	advmod
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 works	nsubj
17	works	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	is a condition, not said to happen	present	the forest		real property	tree rules
2	is	must	he	then	real property	tree rules
3	is	present	that		how property	tree rules
4	work	present	forest			vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

Nobody has ever been to Sherwood Forest

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	2 has	nsubj
2	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	7 Forest	advmod
4	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 Forest	cop
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 Forest	case
6	Sherwood	Sherwood	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 Forest	compound
7	Forest	Forest	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 has	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	Nobody						vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	is	participle					ever	to Sherwood Forest	tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

The forest is real, but historians aren't sure he was

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 forest	det
2	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 real	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 real	cop
4	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 sure	punct
6	but	but	CCONJ	_	10 sure	cc
7	historians	historian	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 sure	nsubj
8	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 sure	cop
9	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 sure	advmod
10	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 real	parataxis
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 sure	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 real	cop

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the forest					real property	tree rules
2	not is	present	historians					sure property	tree rules

Option 4

He was real, but he lived in London

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 real	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 real	cop
3	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 lived	punct
5	but	but	CCONJ	_	7 lived	cc
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 lived	nsubj
7	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 real	parataxis
8	in	in	ADP	_	9 London	case
9	London	London	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 lived	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	He					real property	tree rules
2	live	past	he			London			vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in london=Location

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