Test 9 · ★ · Crock of Gold, The Hundred Fighter, part 31: Conn chooses…
Lol, who did the magicians say Becuma really was?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: magicians, Becuma · What happens: do, say, be · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 9 · ★ 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 | Lol | lol | INTJ | _ | 4 did | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 did | punct |
| 3 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 did | nsubj |
| 4 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 magicians | det |
| 6 | magicians | magician | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 say | nsubj |
| 7 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 did | parataxis |
| 8 | Becuma | Becuma | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 was | nsubj |
| 9 | really | really | ADV | _ | 10 was | advmod |
| 10 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 say | ccomp |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | present | the magicians | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | be | past | Becuma | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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
Becuma of the White Skin
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Becuma | Becuma | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 Skin | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Skin | det |
| 4 | White | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 Skin | amod |
| 5 | Skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Becuma | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
A goddess of the Otherworld named Becuma
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 goddess | det |
| 2 | goddess | goddess | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 Otherworld | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Otherworld | det |
| 5 | Otherworld | otherworld | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 goddess | nmod |
| 6 | named | name | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 Otherworld | acl |
| 7 | Becuma | Becuma | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 named | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | name | participle | the Otherworld not said here | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
Option 3
Becuma of the White Skin, a goddess from the sea
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Becuma | Becuma | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 Skin | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Skin | det |
| 4 | White | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 Skin | amod |
| 5 | Skin | Skin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Becuma | nmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 goddess | punct |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 goddess | det |
| 8 | goddess | goddess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Becuma | appos |
| 9 | from | from | ADP | _ | 11 sea | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 sea | det |
| 11 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 goddess | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Becuma of the Fair Hair
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Becuma | Becuma | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 Hair | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Hair | det |
| 4 | Fair | Fair | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Hair | compound |
| 5 | Hair | Hair | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Becuma | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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