Test 1 · ★ · Gods and Fighting Men, Mongan's Frenzy, part 39: Mongan tr…

Mate, so Mongan just handed over fifty cows for a girl?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: Mongan · What happens: hand over · To what, where: fifty cows

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 1071 «Gods and Fighting Men, Mongan's Frenzy, part 39: Mongan trades cows for 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	Mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 handed	punct
3	so	so	ADV	_	6 handed	advmod
4	Mongan	Mongan	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 handed	nsubj
5	just	just	ADV	_	6 handed	advmod
6	handed	hand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Mate	conj
7	over	over	ADV	_	8 fifty	advmod
8	fifty	fifty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 cows	nummod
9	cows	cow	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 handed	obj
10	for	for	ADP	_	12 girl	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 girl	det
12	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 handed	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Mate	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hand over	past	Mongan	fifty cows				for a girl	vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cow=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

Yep, fifty cows, mate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yep	yep	INTJ	_	4 cows	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yep	punct
3	fifty	fifty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 cows	nummod
4	cows	cow	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 mate	punct
6	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 cows	conj

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

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Yep, cows and calves for Duv Laca, deal's a deal

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yep	yep	INTJ	_	3 cows	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yep	punct
3	cows	cow	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 deal	nmod:poss
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 calves	cc
5	calves	calf	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 cows	conj
6	for	for	ADP	_	7 Duv	case
7	Duv	Duv	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 cows	nmod
8	Laca	Laca	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 Duv	flat
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 cows	punct
10	deal	deal	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 deal	nsubj
11	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 deal	cop
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 deal	det
13	deal	deal	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	cows for Duv and calves's deal	a deal					tree rules
2	deal		cows for Duv and calves						nom deal «act transitive»: poss=agent

Option 3

Yeah, bargain done

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	3 bargain	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	bargain	bargain	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 bargain	acl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	participle		bargain not said here					vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Nah, he kept his cows and sent her off with a shrug

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 kept	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 kept	nsubj
4	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 cows	nmod:poss
6	cows	cow	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 kept	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 sent	cc
8	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 kept	conj
9	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 sent	obj
10	off	off	ADP	_	8 sent	compound:prt
11	with	with	ADP	_	13 shrug	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 shrug	det
13	shrug	shrug	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 sent	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	past	he	his cows					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cow=Theme
2	send off	past	he not said here	her = she				with a shrug	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme

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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