Test 7 · ★ · Deirdre, Becfola's Wooing, part 21: Becfola sneaks home an…
So Becfola wanted the monks to get all the gold, yeah?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Becfola, monks · What happens: want, get · To what, where: monks, gold
This is test 7 · ★ 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 wanted | advmod |
| 2 | Becfola | Becfola | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 wanted | nsubj |
| 3 | wanted | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 monks | det |
| 5 | monks | monk | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 wanted | obj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 get | mark |
| 7 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 wanted | xcomp |
| 8 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 gold | det:predet |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 gold | det |
| 10 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 get | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 wanted | punct |
| 12 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 3 wanted | discourse |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 wanted | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | want | past | Becfola | the monks | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | get not said to happen | to-infinitive | the monks not said here | all gold | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer gold=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 · ✓ the right answer
Yeah, cos she reckoned Sunday gold brings bad luck
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 5 reckoned | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 reckoned | punct |
| 3 | cos | cos | SCONJ | _ | 5 reckoned | mark |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 reckoned | nsubj |
| 5 | reckoned | reckon | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 brings | nsubj:outer |
| 6 | Sunday | Sunday | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 gold | compound |
| 7 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 reckoned | obj |
| 8 | brings | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 luck | amod |
| 10 | luck | luck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 brings | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reckon | past | she | Sunday gold | vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent gold=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | bring | present | bad luck | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent luck=Theme |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
Yeah, she wanted the monks rich
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 wanted | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 wanted | punct |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 wanted | nsubj |
| 4 | wanted | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 monks | det |
| 6 | monks | monk | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 wanted | obj |
| 7 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 wanted | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | want | past | she | the monks | rich property | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Pivot monk=Theme |
Option 3
Yeah, cos she reckoned Sunday gold brings bad luck, so the monks should take every last coin of it
The tree, 19 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 5 reckoned | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 reckoned | punct |
| 3 | cos | cos | SCONJ | _ | 5 reckoned | mark |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 reckoned | nsubj |
| 5 | reckoned | reckon | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | Sunday | Sunday | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 reckoned | obl:unmarked |
| 7 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 brings | nsubj |
| 8 | brings | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 Sunday | acl:relcl |
| 9 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 luck | amod |
| 10 | luck | luck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 brings | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 take | punct |
| 12 | so | so | ADV | _ | 16 take | advmod |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 monks | det |
| 14 | monks | monk | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 take | nsubj |
| 15 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 take | aux |
| 16 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 reckoned | parataxis |
| 17 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 19 coin | det |
| 18 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 coin | amod |
| 19 | coin | coin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 take | obj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 it | case |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 coin | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reckon | past | she | sunday | vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | bring | present | gold | bad luck | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent luck=Theme | ||||
| 3 | take | should | the monks | every last coin of gold | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent coin=Theme | ||||
| 4 | coin | gold | nom coin «possession transitive»: of=patient |
Option 4
Nah, she wanted the king to keep half of it
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 4 wanted | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 wanted | nsubj |
| 4 | wanted | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 king | det |
| 6 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 wanted | obj |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 keep | mark |
| 8 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 wanted | xcomp |
| 9 | half | half | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 8 keep | obj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 it | case |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 half | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | want | past | she | the king | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | keep not said to happen | to-infinitive | the king not said here | half of half | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent half=Theme |
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