Test 2 · ★ · Gods and Fighting Men, Mongan's Frenzy, part 35: the story…

Lads, what were the two fighters first turned into?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Lads · What happens: be, turn · To what, where: two fighters

This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 1067 «Gods and Fighting Men, Mongan's Frenzy, part 35: the storyteller Cairide tells his tale to the abbot, while the Flame Lady grows jealous of Duv Laca» 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	Lads	lad	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 turned	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 fighters	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 fighters	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 fighters	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 fighters	det
6	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 fighters	nummod
7	fighters	fighter	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 turned	nsubj
8	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	9 turned	advmod
9	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	into	into	ADP	_	9 turned	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 turned	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the two fighters					tree rules
2	turn	past	Lads					first property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme 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

giant stags butting with their foreheads

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 stags	amod
2	stags	stag	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	butting	butt	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 stags	acl
4	with	with	ADP	_	6 foreheads	case
5	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 foreheads	nmod:poss
6	foreheads	forehead	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 butting	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	butt	gerund	giant stags not said here					with stags's foreheads	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V PP PP»: agent=Agent with forehead=Instrument

Option 2

wild bulls goring with their horns

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 bulls	amod
2	bulls	bull	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	goring	gore	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 bulls	acl
4	with	with	ADP	_	6 horns	case
5	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 horns	nmod:poss
6	horns	horn	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 goring	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	gore	gerund	wild bulls not said here					with bulls's horns	tree rules

Option 3

great boars charging with their tusks

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 boars	amod
2	boars	boar	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	charging	charge	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 boars	acl
4	with	with	ADP	_	6 tusks	case
5	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 tusks	nmod:poss
6	tusks	tusk	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 charging	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	charge	gerund	great boars not said here					with boars's tusks	vn equip-13.4.2 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP»: agent=Agent with tusk=Theme

Option 4

two lions snarling and clawing at each other across the sea

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 lions	nummod
2	lions	lion	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 snarling	nsubj
3	snarling	snarl	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 clawing	cc
5	clawing	claw	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 snarling	conj
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 each	case
7	each	each	DET	ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp	5 clawing	obl
8	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 each	fixed
9	across	across	ADP	_	11 sea	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 sea	det
11	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 clawing	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	snarl	gerund	two lions						vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	claw	gerund	two lions not said here					across the sea; at each	vn swat-18.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent at each=Patient

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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