Test 8 · ★ · Crock of Gold, The Hundred Fighter, part 31: Conn chooses…

Did the magicians reckon a sinless boy's blood would fix it?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: magicians, blood · What happens: reckon, fix · To what, where: it

This is test 8 · ★ 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	Did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 magicians	aux
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 magicians	det
3	magicians	magician	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 reckon	nsubj
4	reckon	reckon	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 boy	det
6	sinless	sinless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 boy	amod
7	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 blood	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 boy	case
9	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 fix	nsubj
10	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 fix	aux
11	fix	fix	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 reckon	ccomp
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 fix	obj
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 reckon	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	reckon	present	the magicians						vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	fix	would	a sinless boy's blood	it					vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent it=Patient

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 right answer

Yeah, mixed with the soil of Tara

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	3 mixed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 mixed	punct
3	mixed	mix	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	with	with	ADP	_	6 soil	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 soil	det
6	soil	soil	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 mixed	obl
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 Tara	case
8	Tara	Tara	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 soil	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mix	participle						with the soil of Tara	vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V PP.co-patient»: agent=Patient with soil=Co-Patient
2	soil			Tara					nom soil «state transitive»: of=patient

Option 2

Nah, just water

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 water	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	just	just	ADV	_	4 water	advmod
4	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

Yeah, mixed with the milk of cows

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	3 mixed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 mixed	punct
3	mixed	mix	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	with	with	ADP	_	6 milk	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 milk	det
6	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 mixed	obl
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 cows	case
8	cows	cow	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 milk	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mix	participle						with the milk of cows	vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V PP.co-patient»: agent=Patient with milk=Co-Patient

Option 4

Yeah, with milk

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 milk	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 milk	punct
3	with	with	ADP	_	4 milk	case
4	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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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