Test 11 · ★ · Crock of Gold, The Wooing of Becfola, part 19: the High Ki…

what did Crimthann look like when he was crowned?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Crimthann · What happens: look, crown · To what, where: Crimthann

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 1051 «Crock of Gold, The Wooing of Becfola, part 19: the High King asks a silent lady in a chariot to marry him» 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	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 look	obl
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 look	aux
3	Crimthann	Crimthann	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 look	nsubj
4	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	like	like	SCONJ	_	9 crowned	mark
6	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	9 crowned	advmod
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 crowned	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 crowned	aux:pass
9	crowned	crown	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 look	advcl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 look	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	past · do-support	Crimthann						vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
2	crown	past · passive		Crimthann					vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: subject=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

he wore a golden torc

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	2 wore	nsubj
2	wore	wear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 torc	det
4	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 torc	amod
5	torc	torc	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 wore	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wear	past	he	a golden torc					vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent torc=Source

Option 2

his hair was cut short

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 hair	nmod:poss
2	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 cut	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 cut	aux:pass
4	cut	cut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 cut	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cut	past · passive		his hair				short property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

his curls were the crown

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 curls	nmod:poss
2	curls	curl	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 crown	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 crown	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 crown	det
5	crown	crown	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	his curls	the crown					tree rules

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

a golden crown

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 crown	det
2	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 crown	amod
3	crown	crown	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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