Test 13 · ★ · Gods and Fighting Men, The Adventures of Mongan, part 38:…
Why was the cradle wedding even made, like?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be, make · To what, where: cradle wedding
This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 1070 «Gods and Fighting Men, The Adventures of Mongan, part 38: Mongan is raised, avenges his father, and sees the white cows» 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 | 5 wedding | advmod |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 wedding | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 wedding | det |
| 4 | cradle | cradle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 wedding | compound |
| 5 | wedding | wedding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 made | obl |
| 6 | even | even | ADV | _ | 7 made | advmod |
| 7 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 like | punct |
| 9 | like | like | ADP | _ | 7 made | obl |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 made | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the cradle wedding | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | make | past | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
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
to stop the Black Hag
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | to | to | PART | _ | 2 stop | mark |
| 2 | stop | stop | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Hag | det |
| 4 | Black | Black | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Hag | compound |
| 5 | Hag | Hag | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 stop | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stop | to-infinitive | the Black Hag | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality hag=Eventuality |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
to end the bad feud
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | to | to | PART | _ | 2 end | mark |
| 2 | end | end | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 feud | det |
| 4 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 feud | amod |
| 5 | feud | feud | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 end | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | end | to-infinitive | the bad feud | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality feud=Eventuality |
Option 3
to gain the cattle, like
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | to | to | PART | _ | 2 gain | mark |
| 2 | gain | gain | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 cattle | det |
| 4 | cattle | cattle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 gain | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 like | punct |
| 6 | like | like | INTJ | _ | 4 cattle | discourse |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | gain | to-infinitive | the cattle | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cattle=Theme |
Option 4
to end war
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | to | to | PART | _ | 2 end | mark |
| 2 | end | end | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 end | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | end | to-infinitive | war | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality war=Eventuality |
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