Test 13 · ★ · Gods and Fighting Men, the tale of Conn and Segda, part 32…

Did Conn really cover his eyes with a cloak, or did everyone do that?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Conn · What happens: cover, do · To what, where: eyes, everyone, that

This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 1064 «Gods and Fighting Men, the tale of Conn and Segda, part 32: Conn lands on a magic island, asks for the queen's son, and the boy is condemned to die» 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=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 cover	aux
2	Conn	Conn	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 cover	nsubj
3	really	really	ADV	_	4 cover	advmod
4	cover	cover	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 eyes	nmod:poss
6	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 cover	obj
7	with	with	ADP	_	9 cloak	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 cloak	det
9	cloak	cloak	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 cover	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 did	punct
11	or	or	CCONJ	_	12 did	cc
12	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 cover	advcl
13	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	12 did	obj
14	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 did	xcomp
15	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	14 do	obj
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 cover	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	cover	past · do-support	Conn	Conn's eyes	with a cloak	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent eye=Destination with cloak=Theme
2	do	past	Conn not said here	everyone		tree rules
3	do	infinitive	Conn not said here	that		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Eventuality

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 · ✓ the right answer

Everyone there covered their eyes with their cloaks

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	3 covered	nsubj
2	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	1 Everyone	advmod
3	covered	cover	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 eyes	nmod:poss
5	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 covered	obj
6	with	with	ADP	_	8 cloaks	case
7	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 cloaks	nmod:poss
8	cloaks	cloak	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 covered	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cover	past	Everyone	their eyes				with eyes's cloaks	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent eye=Destination with cloak=Theme

Option 2

Everyone looked away and hid their faces

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	2 looked	nsubj
2	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	away	away	ADV	_	2 looked	advmod
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 hid	cc
5	hid	hide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 looked	conj
6	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 faces	nmod:poss
7	faces	face	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 hid	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look away	past	Everyone					away property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
2	hide	past	Everyone not said here	their faces					vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent face=Patient

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Conn alone covered his eyes with his cloak

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Conn	Conn	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 covered	nsubj
2	alone	alone	ADV	_	3 covered	advmod
3	covered	cover	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 eyes	nmod:poss
5	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 covered	obj
6	with	with	ADP	_	8 cloak	case
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 cloak	nmod:poss
8	cloak	cloak	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 covered	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cover	past	Conn	Conn's eyes				with Conn's cloak; alone property	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent eye=Destination with cloak=Theme

Option 4

Everyone in the whole court covered their eyes with their cloaks, Conn included, when the blow was about to fall

The tree, 20 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	6 covered	nsubj
2	in	in	ADP	_	5 court	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 court	det
4	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 court	amod
5	court	court	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Everyone	nmod
6	covered	cover	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 eyes	nmod:poss
8	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 covered	obj
9	with	with	ADP	_	11 cloaks	case
10	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 cloaks	nmod:poss
11	cloaks	cloak	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 covered	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 included	punct
13	Conn	Conn	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 included	nsubj
14	included	include	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 covered	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 about	punct
16	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	20 about	advmod
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 blow	det
18	blow	blow	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 about	nsubj
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 about	cop
20	about	about	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 included	conj
21	to	to	PART	_	22 fall	mark
22	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 about	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	cover	past	Everyone	their eyes	with eyes's cloaks	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent eye=Destination with cloak=Theme
2	include	past	Conn			vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	is	past	the blow		about property	tree rules
4	fall	to-infinitive	the blow not said here			vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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