Test 12 · ★ · West Highland Tales, Ian the Soldier's Son, part 7: Ian ou…

Who was the proper hero in all this, pal?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be · To what, where: proper hero, this

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 1141 «West Highland Tales, Ian the Soldier's Son, part 7: Ian outwits the raven and slays the second giant» 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	5 hero	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 hero	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 hero	det
4	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 hero	amod
5	hero	hero	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 this	case
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 this	det:predet
8	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 hero	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 pal	punct
10	pal	pal	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 hero	conj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 hero	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the proper hero and pal		this			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

Ian, the soldier's son, dead clever and brave in a scrap

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ian	Ian	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 son	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 soldier	det
4	soldier	soldier	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 son	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 soldier	case
6	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Ian	appos
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 clever	punct
8	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 clever	amod
9	clever	clever	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 son	conj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 brave	cc
11	brave	brave	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 clever	conj
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 scrap	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 scrap	det
14	scrap	scrap	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 clever	obl

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

Option 2

Ian, the soldier's son, dead clever, and the raven helped a bit

The tree, 13 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ian	Ian	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 son	compound
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Ian	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 soldier	det
4	soldier	soldier	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 son	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 soldier	case
6	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 helped	nsubj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 clever	punct
8	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 clever	amod
9	clever	clever	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 son	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 raven	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 raven	cc
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 raven	det
13	raven	raven	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 son	conj
14	helped	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 bit	det
16	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 helped	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	help	past	the soldier's Ian son and the raven	a bit					vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Ian, the miller's son, dead clever

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ian	Ian	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 son	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 miller	det
4	miller	miller	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 son	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 miller	case
6	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Ian	appos
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Ian	punct
8	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 clever	amod
9	clever	clever	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Ian	conj

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Ian, the soldier's son, dead clever

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ian	Ian	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 son	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 soldier	det
4	soldier	soldier	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 son	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 soldier	case
6	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Ian	appos
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Ian	punct
8	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 clever	amod
9	clever	clever	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Ian	conj

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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