Test 7 · ★ · Gods and Fighting Men, The Story of Mongan, part 36: a hai…

Why did the sick king need that cow?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: do · To what, where: sick king need

This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 1068 «Gods and Fighting Men, The Story of Mongan, part 36: a hailstorm sends Mongan into Faery, where a feast and a tale begin» 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	2 did	advmod
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 need	det
4	sick	sick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 need	amod
5	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 need	compound
6	need	need	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 did	obj
7	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 cow	det
8	cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 need	obj
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past		the sick king need					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent need=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 · ← Mova's choice

So he could drink the thick boiled-down broth and get better

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	So	so	ADV	_	4 drink	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 drink	nsubj
3	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 drink	aux
4	drink	drink	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 broth	det
6	thick	thick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 broth	amod
7	boiled	boil	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 broth	amod
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 down	punct
9	down	down	ADP	_	7 boiled	compound:prt
10	broth	broth	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 drink	obj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 get	cc
12	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 drink	conj
13	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	12 get	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	drink	could	he	the thick boiled broth		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent broth=Patient
2	boil down	participle				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	get	infinitive	he not said here		good property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

Option 2

To drink the boiled-down rendering to cure his illness

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 drink	mark
2	drink	drink	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 rendering	det
4	boiled	boil	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 rendering	aux
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 down	punct
6	down	down	ADV	_	7 rendering	advmod
7	rendering	render	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 drink	advcl
8	to	to	PART	_	9 cure	mark
9	cure	cure	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 rendering	xcomp
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 illness	nmod:poss
11	illness	illness	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 cure	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	other	roles by
1	drink	to-infinitive			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	render	participle		down property	tree rules
3	cure	to-infinitive	his illness		vn free-10.6.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer illness=Source

Option 3

To cure his wasting sickness

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 cure	mark
2	cure	cure	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 sickness	nmod:poss
4	wasting	wasting	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sickness	compound
5	sickness	sickness	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 cure	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cure	to-infinitive		his wasting sickness					vn free-10.6.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer sickness=Source

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

To drink the boiled-down rendering

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 drink	mark
2	drink	drink	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 rendering	det
4	boiled	boil	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 rendering	aux
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 down	punct
6	down	down	ADV	_	7 rendering	advmod
7	rendering	render	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 drink	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drink	to-infinitive							vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	render	participle						down property	vn give-13.1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent

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