Test 8 · ★ · Crock of Gold, The Wooing of Becfola, part 19: the High Ki…

what did the king reckon a ruler should never do?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: king, ruler · What happens: reckon, not do

This is test 8 · ★ 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=Int	5 reckon	obj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 reckon	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 king	det
4	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 reckon	nsubj
5	reckon	reckon	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 ruler	det
7	ruler	ruler	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 do	nsubj
8	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 do	aux
9	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	10 do	advmod
10	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 reckon	ccomp
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 reckon	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	reckon	past · do-support	the king						tree rules
2	not do	should	a ruler						vn act-114-1 «NP V»: 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 · ✓ the right answer

think with the nose and eyebrows

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	think	think	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	with	with	ADP	_	4 nose	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 nose	det
4	nose	nose	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 think	obl
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 eyebrows	cc
6	eyebrows	eyebrow	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 nose	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	imperative	you not said here					with the nose and eyebrows	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

think with the heart and the hands

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	think	think	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	with	with	ADP	_	4 heart	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 heart	det
4	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 think	obl
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 hands	cc
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 hands	det
7	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 heart	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	imperative	you not said here					with the heart and the hands	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

decide everything by the flight of birds and omens

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	decide	decide	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	1 decide	obj
3	by	by	ADP	_	5 flight	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 flight	det
5	flight	flight	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 decide	obl
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 birds	case
7	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 flight	nmod
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 omens	cc
9	omens	omen	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 birds	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	decide	imperative	you not said here	everything				by the flight of birds and omens	vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent everything=Topic

Option 4

listen to every rumour and every whisper of the court

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	listen	listen	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	to	to	ADP	_	4 rumour	case
3	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	4 rumour	det
4	rumour	rumour	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 listen	obl
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 whisper	cc
6	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	7 whisper	det
7	whisper	whisper	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 rumour	conj
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 court	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 court	det
10	court	court	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 whisper	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	listen	imperative	you not said here					to every rumour and every whisper of the court	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to rumour=Theme
2	whisper			the court					nom whisper «communication transitive»: of=patient

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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