Test 2 · ★ · Gods and Fighting Men, Conn the Hundred Fighter, part 30:…
sure look, who was Conn bawling over at the sea?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: sure look, Conn · What happens: be, bawl over · To what, where: Conn, sea
This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 1062 «Gods and Fighting Men, Conn the Hundred Fighter, part 30: Conn grieves for his queen and a stranger comes out of the sea» 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 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 look | amod |
| 2 | look | look | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 Conn | punct |
| 4 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 Conn | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 Conn | cop |
| 6 | Conn | Conn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 look | appos |
| 7 | bawling | bawl | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 Conn | acl |
| 8 | over | over | ADV | _ | 7 bawling | advmod |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 sea | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 sea | det |
| 11 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 bawling | obl |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 look | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | sure look | Conn | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | bawl over speech: other | gerund | Conn not said here | the sea | over property | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «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
His dead queen Eithne
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 queen | nmod:poss |
| 2 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 queen | amod |
| 3 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | Eithne | Eithne | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 queen | appos |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
The king's son Art, who had gone off to the sea
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 king | det |
| 2 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 son | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 king | case |
| 4 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 gone | nsubj |
| 5 | Art | Art | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 son | appos |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 gone | punct |
| 7 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 gone | nsubj |
| 8 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 gone | aux |
| 9 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 10 | off | off | ADP | _ | 9 gone | compound:prt |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 sea | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 sea | det |
| 13 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 gone | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go off | past · perfect | the king's son | to the sea | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme |
Option 3
His dead wife Eithne, the Norwegian queen he loved
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 wife | nmod:poss |
| 2 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 wife | amod |
| 3 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | Eithne | Eithne | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 wife | appos |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 queen | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 queen | det |
| 7 | Norwegian | Norwegian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 queen | amod |
| 8 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 wife | conj |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 loved | nsubj |
| 10 | loved | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 queen | acl:relcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | love | past | Eithne | the Norwegian queen not said here | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer queen=Stimulus |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
His dead wife Eithne
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 wife | nmod:poss |
| 2 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 wife | amod |
| 3 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | Eithne | Eithne | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 wife | appos |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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