Test 6 · ★ · Gutenberg 3027, Ian and the Grey Horse: Ian wins the bride…

Whit did the smith say he'd be if he failed?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Whit · What happens: do, say, be · To what, where: smith · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 1143 «Gutenberg 3027, Ian and the Grey Horse: Ian wins the bride, the spells break, and the false brothers are shamed» 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	Whit	whit	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 did	nsubj
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 smith	det
4	smith	smith	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 did	obj
5	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 did	xcomp
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 failed	nsubj
7	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 failed	aux
8	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	11 failed	cop
9	if	if	SCONJ	_	11 failed	mark
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 failed	nsubj
11	failed	fail	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 say	ccomp
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	do	past	Whit	the smith		tree rules
2	say speech: assert	infinitive	Whit not said here			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	is a condition, not said to happen	would	Whit		fail property	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

hanged from the highest tree at the gate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	hanged	hanged	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	from	from	ADP	_	5 tree	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 tree	det
4	highest	high	ADJ	Degree=Sup	5 tree	amod
5	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 hanged	nmod
6	at	at	ADP	_	8 gate	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 gate	det
8	gate	gate	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 tree	nmod

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

Option 2

drowned in a loch

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	drowned	drown	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	in	in	ADP	_	4 loch	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 loch	det
4	loch	loch	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 drowned	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drown	participle				a loch			vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 3

hanged on a tree in the square

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	hanged	hange	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	on	on	ADP	_	4 tree	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 tree	det
4	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 hanged	obl
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 square	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 square	det
7	square	square	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 hanged	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hange	participle				a tree		in the square	tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

hanged on a tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	hanged	hange	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	on	on	ADP	_	4 tree	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 tree	det
4	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 hanged	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hange	participle				a tree			tree rules

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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