Test 9 · ★ · Gods and Fighting Men, Mongan, part 40: a sad king and his…

who keeps going amen every time the big priest grunts?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · What happens: keep, go · To what, where: amen

This is test 9 · ★ 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	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	2 keeps	nsubj
2	keeps	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	going	go	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 keeps	xcomp
4	amen	amen	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 going	obj
5	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	6 time	det
6	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 going	obl:unmarked
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 grunts	det
8	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 grunts	amod
9	priest	priest	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 grunts	compound
10	grunts	grunt	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 going	obj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 keeps	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	present							tree rules
2	go	gerund		amen			time		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 · ✓ the right answer

the man behind

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 man	det
2	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	behind	behind	ADV	_	2 man	advmod

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

Option 2

the tall man standing at the back

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 man	det
2	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 man	amod
3	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	standing	stand	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 man	acl
5	at	at	ADP	_	7 back	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 back	det
7	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 standing	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stand	gerund	the tall man not said here			the back			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at back=Location

Option 3

the stranger in the hood behind

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 stranger	det
2	stranger	stranger	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 behind	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 hood	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 hood	det
5	hood	hood	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 stranger	nmod
6	behind	behind	ADV	_	root	root

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

Option 4

the boy beside

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 boy	det
2	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	beside	beside	ADP	_	2 boy	nmod

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

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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