Test 5 · ★ · Crock of Gold, The Wooing of Becfola, part 19: the High Ki…
sound, what did the king say about women and houses?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: sound · What happens: do, say · To what, where: king · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 5 · ★ 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 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 say | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 did | punct |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 did | nsubj |
| 4 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 sound | acl:relcl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 king | det |
| 6 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 did | obj |
| 7 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | about | about | ADP | _ | 9 women | case |
| 9 | women | woman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 say | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 houses | cc |
| 11 | houses | house | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 women | conj |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 say | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | sound | the king | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent king=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | present | sound | about women and houses | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
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
women belong in the house and should not drive
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | women | woman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 belong | nsubj |
| 2 | belong | belong | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 house | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 house | det |
| 5 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 belong | obl |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 drive | cc |
| 7 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 drive | aux |
| 8 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 drive | advmod |
| 9 | drive | drive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 belong | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | belong | present | women | the house | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | not drive | should | women not said here | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
they are home-dwellers
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 dwellers | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 dwellers | cop |
| 3 | home | home | ADV | _ | 5 dwellers | advmod |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 home | punct |
| 5 | dwellers | dweller | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | they | dwellers | home property | tree rules |
Option 3
they are home-dwellers who should never ride out to battle
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 dwellers | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 dwellers | cop |
| 3 | home | home | ADV | _ | 5 dwellers | advmod |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 home | punct |
| 5 | dwellers | dweller | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 6 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 ride | nsubj |
| 7 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 ride | aux |
| 8 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 9 ride | advmod |
| 9 | ride | ride | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 dwellers | acl:relcl |
| 10 | out | out | ADV | _ | 9 ride | advmod |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 battle | mark |
| 12 | battle | battle | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 ride | advcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | they | dwellers | home property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | not ride out | should | dwellers | out property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | battle | to-infinitive | dwellers not said here | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 4
they belong in the house
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 belong | nsubj |
| 2 | belong | belong | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 house | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 house | det |
| 5 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 belong | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | belong | present | they | the house | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=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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