Test 2 · ★ · Finn and His Companions, The Little Brawl at Allen, part 2…

Who's the crier with the two chains, the lad like a DJ?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be · To what, where: crier

This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 1054 «Finn and His Companions, The Little Brawl at Allen, part 22: Goll outgives Fionn at the banquet and admits killing Fionn's father» 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	Who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 crier	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 crier	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 crier	det
4	crier	crier	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	with	with	ADP	_	8 chains	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 chains	det
7	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 chains	nummod
8	chains	chain	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 crier	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 lad	punct
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 lad	det
11	lad	lad	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 crier	conj
12	like	like	ADP	_	14 DJ	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 DJ	det
14	DJ	dj	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 lad	nmod
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 crier	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		the crier and the lad like a DJ				with the two chains	tree rules

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 lad shaking the iron one and the silver one by the door

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 lad	det
2	lad	lad	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	shaking	shake	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 lad	acl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 one	det
5	iron	iron	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 one	amod
6	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 shaking	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 silver	cc
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 silver	det
9	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 one	conj
10	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 silver	flat
11	by	by	ADP	_	13 door	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 door	det
13	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 shaking	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shake	gerund	the lad not said here	the iron one and the silver				by the door	vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent one=Theme by door=Trajectory

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

the lad shaking the iron one and the silver one

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 lad	det
2	lad	lad	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	shaking	shake	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 lad	acl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 one	det
5	iron	iron	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 one	amod
6	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 shaking	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 one	cc
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 one	det
9	silver	silver	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 one	amod
10	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 one	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shake	gerund	the lad not said here	the iron one and the silver one					vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent one=Patient

Option 3

the old man shaking a bronze bell and a horn

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 man	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 man	amod
3	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	shaking	shake	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 man	acl
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 bell	det
6	bronze	bronze	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 bell	compound
7	bell	bell	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 shaking	obj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 horn	cc
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 horn	det
10	horn	horn	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 bell	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shake	gerund	the old man not said here	a bronze bell and a horn					vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent bell=Patient

Option 4

the lad shaking the iron one and the silver one while the servants stared

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 lad	det
2	lad	lad	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 stared	nsubj
3	shaking	shake	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 lad	acl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 one	det
5	iron	iron	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 one	amod
6	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 shaking	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 silver	cc
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 silver	det
9	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 one	conj
10	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 silver	flat
11	while	while	SCONJ	_	13 servants	mark
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 servants	det
13	servants	servant	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 shaking	advcl
14	stared	stare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shake	gerund	the lad not said here	the iron one and the silver					vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent one=Patient
2	stare	past	the lad						vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent

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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