Test 12 · ★ · Crock of Gold, The Wooing of Becfola, part 19: the High Ki…
did the lady look away from Crimthann straight away?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: lady · What happens: look away
This is test 12 · ★ 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 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 look | aux |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 lady | det |
| 3 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 look | nsubj |
| 4 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | away | away | ADV | _ | 4 look | advmod |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 Crimthann | case |
| 7 | Crimthann | Crimthann | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 away | obl |
| 8 | straight | straight | ADV | _ | 9 away | advmod |
| 9 | away | away | ADV | _ | 4 look | advmod |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 look | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look away | past · do-support | the lady | away property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
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
yeah, she looked at the water
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 looked | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 looked | punct |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 looked | nsubj |
| 4 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 water | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 water | det |
| 7 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 looked | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | past | she | at the water | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at water=Theme |
Option 2
nah, she looked at the horses
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 4 looked | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 nah | punct |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 looked | nsubj |
| 4 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 horses | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 horses | det |
| 7 | horses | horse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 looked | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | past | she | at the horses | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at horse=Theme |
Option 3
nah, she stared
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 4 stared | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 nah | punct |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 stared | nsubj |
| 4 | stared | stare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stare | past | she | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
nah, she couldnt look away from him
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 5 look | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 nah | punct |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 couldnt | compound |
| 4 | couldnt | couldnt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 look | nsubj |
| 5 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | away | away | ADV | _ | 5 look | advmod |
| 7 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 him | case |
| 8 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 look | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look away | infinitive | she couldnt | from him = he; away property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent from he=Theme |
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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