Test 14 · ★ · Crock of Gold, The Hundred Fighter, part 31: Conn chooses…

Was Becuma's hand described as pale?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be, describe · To what, where: hand

This is test 14 · ★ of lesson 1063 «Crock of Gold, The Hundred Fighter, part 31: Conn chooses Becuma, Art is banished, and Ireland starves» 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	Was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 hand	cop
2	Becuma	Becuma	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 hand	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 Becuma	case
4	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 described	csubj
5	described	describe	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	as	as	ADP	_	7 pale	case
7	pale	pale	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 described	obl
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 described	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		Becuma's hand					tree rules
2	describe	participle						as pale	vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent as pale=Attribute

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

Nah, "red and rough hand" from working the fields of Tara

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	7 hand	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 hand	punct
4	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 hand	amod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 rough	cc
6	rough	rough	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 red	conj
7	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 hand	punct
9	from	from	SCONJ	_	10 working	mark
10	working	work	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 hand	acl
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 fields	det
12	fields	field	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 working	obj
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 Tara	case
14	Tara	Tara	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 fields	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	work	gerund	red hand not said here	the fields of Tara					vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent field=Material

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Yeah, "pale thin hand" that held the cup of wine

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	9 held	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 hand	punct
4	pale	pale	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 hand	amod
5	thin	thin	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 hand	amod
6	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 held	obl
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 hand	punct
8	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 held	nsubj
9	held	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 cup	det
11	cup	cup	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 held	obj
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 wine	case
13	wine	wine	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 cup	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hold	past	that	pale thin hand					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cup=Theme

Option 3

Nah, "brown rough hand"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 hand	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 hand	punct
4	brown	brown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 hand	amod
5	rough	rough	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 hand	amod
6	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 hand	punct

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, "pale thin hand"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 hand	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 hand	punct
4	pale	pale	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 hand	amod
5	thin	thin	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 hand	amod
6	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 hand	punct

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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