Test 3 · ★ · Gods and Fighting Men, Mongan, part 40: a sad king and his…
which one's the king that nicked the wife, innit?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: one, king · What happens: be, nick, innit · To what, where: king, wife
This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 1072 «Gods and Fighting Men, Mongan, part 40: a sad king and his servant reach a noisy feast in Leinster» 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 | which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 2 one | det |
| 2 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 king | nsubj |
| 3 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 king | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 king | det |
| 5 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 nicked | nsubj |
| 7 | nicked | nick | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 king | acl:relcl |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 wife | det |
| 9 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 nicked | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 innit | punct |
| 11 | innit | innit | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 5 king | parataxis |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 king | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | which one | the king | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | nick | past | the king | the wife | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wife=Patient | ||||
| 3 | innit | infinitive | 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
the King of Ulster
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 King | det |
| 2 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 Ulster | case |
| 4 | Ulster | Ulster | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 King | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
the King of Leinster
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 King | det |
| 2 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 Leinster | case |
| 4 | Leinster | Leinster | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 King | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
the King of Munster
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 King | det |
| 2 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 Munster | case |
| 4 | Munster | Munster | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 King | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice
the King of Leinster who took the wife
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 King | det |
| 2 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 took | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 Leinster | case |
| 4 | Leinster | Leinster | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 King | nmod |
| 5 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 took | nsubj |
| 6 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 wife | det |
| 8 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 took | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | the King of Leinster | the wife | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument wife=Destination |
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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