Test 6 · ★ · Deirdre, Becfola's Wooing, part 21: Becfola sneaks home an…
What did the monks reckon they'd found?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: monks · What happens: do, reckon, find
This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 1053 «Deirdre, Becfola's Wooing, part 21: Becfola sneaks home and the king turns her scolding into a joke» 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 | 2 did | nsubj |
| 2 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 monks | det |
| 4 | monks | monk | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 reckon | nsubj |
| 5 | reckon | reckon | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 did | parataxis |
| 6 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 found | nsubj |
| 7 | 'd | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 found | aux |
| 8 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 reckon | ccomp |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | reckon | present | the monks | vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | find | past · perfect | monks = monk | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: 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
some old rings
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 3 rings | det |
| 2 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 rings | amod |
| 3 | rings | ring | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
a cart of cattle and horses
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 cart | det |
| 2 | cart | cart | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 cattle | case |
| 4 | cattle | cattle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 cart | nmod |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 horses | cc |
| 6 | horses | horse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 cattle | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
two men's load of gold and silver
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 men | nummod |
| 2 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 load | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 men | case |
| 4 | load | load | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 gold | case |
| 6 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 load | nmod |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 silver | cc |
| 8 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 gold | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
a stash of coins in the ditch
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 stash | det |
| 2 | stash | stash | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 coins | case |
| 4 | coins | coin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 stash | nmod |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 ditch | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 ditch | det |
| 7 | ditch | ditch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 coins | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stash | coins in the ditch | nom stash «possession 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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