Test 2 · ★ · Crock of Gold, The Wooing of Becfola, part 19: the High Ki…

bro, why did the king call her "Becfola the Dowerless"?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: king · What happens: call · To what, where: her · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 2 · ★ 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	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 call	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 bro	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	7 call	advmod
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 call	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 king	det
6	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 call	nsubj
7	call	call	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 call	obj
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 Becfola	punct
10	Becfola	Becfola	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 call	xcomp
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 Dowerless	det
12	Dowerless	Dowerless	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 Becfola	appos
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 Becfola	punct
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 call	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	call	past · do-support	the king		her = she			bro vocative	vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient

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

cos she was a stranger

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cos	cos	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 stranger	nsubj
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 stranger	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 stranger	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 stranger	det
5	stranger	stranger	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	cos	a stranger					tree rules

Option 2

cos she turned up with nothing at all from her da

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cos	cos	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 turned	nsubj
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 turned	nsubj
3	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	up	up	ADP	_	3 turned	compound:prt
5	with	with	ADP	_	6 nothing	case
6	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	3 turned	obl
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 all	case
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 nothing	nmod
9	from	from	ADP	_	11 da	case
10	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 da	nmod:poss
11	da	da	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 turned	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn up	past	cos			cos's da		with nothing	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

cos she brought no dowry

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cos	cos	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 brought	nsubj
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 brought	nsubj
3	brought	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	5 dowry	det
5	dowry	dowry	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 brought	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bring	past	cos	no dowry					vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent dowry=Theme

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

cos her family never sent a single gift over the river

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cos	cos	SCONJ	_	5 sent	mark
2	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 family	nmod:poss
3	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sent	nsubj
4	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	5 sent	advmod
5	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 gift	det
7	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 gift	amod
8	gift	gift	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sent	obj
9	over	over	ADP	_	11 river	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 river	det
11	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sent	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not send	past	her family	a single gift		the river			vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gift=Theme

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