Test 8 · ★ · Gods and Fighting Men, The Story of Mongan, part 36: a hai…

Were Fiachna's dad and Eolgarg's dad pals, like?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: dad · What happens: be, pal

This is test 8 · ★ 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	Were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	Fiachna	Fiachna	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 dad	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 Fiachna	case
4	dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Were	nsubj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 pals	cc
6	Eolgarg	Eolgarg	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 dad	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 Eolgarg	case
8	dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 pals	nsubj
9	pals	pal	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Were	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 like	punct
11	like	like	ADP	_	9 pals	advmod
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Were	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	past	Fiachna's dad						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	pal	present	Eolgarg's dad						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

Not really

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	2 really	advmod
2	really	really	ADV	_	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2

They were sworn enemies

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 sworn	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sworn	aux:pass
3	sworn	swear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	enemies	enemy	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 sworn	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	swear	past · passive		They					vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V NP to be NP»: subject=Eventuality

Option 3

They fought against each other

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 fought	nsubj
2	fought	fight	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	against	against	ADP	_	4 each	case
4	each	each	DET	ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp	2 fought	obl
5	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 each	fixed

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fight	past	They					against each	vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

They did deeds in common

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 did	nsubj
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	deeds	deed	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 did	obj
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 common	case
5	common	common	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 did	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	They	deeds		common			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent deed=Eventuality

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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