Test 7 · ★ · Gods and Fighting Men, Mongan's Frenzy, part 35: the story…

Who's Duv Laca anyway, like?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be · To what, where: Duv

This is test 7 · ★ 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	Who	who	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 Duv	cop
3	Duv	Duv	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Who	nsubj
4	Laca	Laca	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Duv	flat
5	anyway	anyway	ADV	_	1 Who	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Who	punct
7	like	like	ADP	_	1 Who	case
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Who	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		Duv					tree rules

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

his old love

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 love	nmod:poss
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 love	amod
3	love	love	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	love		his = he						nom love «feeling transitive»: poss=agent

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

a lady Mongan speaks of with longing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 lady	det
2	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 speaks	nsubj
3	Mongan	Mongan	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 lady	appos
4	speaks	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 longing	case
6	with	with	ADP	_	7 longing	case
7	longing	longing	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 speaks	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	speak speech: other	present	a lady					of longing	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

a lady who sailed to Ireland with Delvcaem

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 lady	det
2	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 sailed	nsubj
4	sailed	sail	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 lady	acl:relcl
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 Ireland	case
6	Ireland	Ireland	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 sailed	obl
7	with	with	ADP	_	8 Delvcaem	case
8	Delvcaem	Delvcaem	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 sailed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sail	past	a lady			Ireland		with Delvcaem	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent to ireland=Trajectory

Option 4

a woman Mongan married at Tara

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 woman	det
2	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 married	nsubj
3	Mongan	Mongan	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 woman	appos
4	married	marry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 Tara	case
6	Tara	Tara	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 married	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	marry	past	a woman			Tara			vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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