Test 9 · ★ · Fairy Book, Jose and the White Horse, part 52: Jose pays d…

sus, what did the king threaten jose with?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: king · What happens: threaten · To what, where: sus

This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 1186 «Fairy Book, Jose and the White Horse, part 52: Jose pays debts, rises at court, and is sent to find the princess» 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	sus	sus	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 threaten	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 threaten	obj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 threaten	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 king	det
6	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 threaten	nsubj
7	threaten	threaten	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 sus	acl:relcl
8	jose	Jose	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 threaten	obj
9	with	with	ADP	_	7 threaten	obl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 sus	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	threaten	past · do-support	the king	sus					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Stimulus what=Experiencer jose=Result

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

being beaten

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 beaten	aux:pass
2	beaten	beat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	beat	gerund · passive							vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»

Option 2

losing his life

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	losing	lose	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 life	nmod:poss
3	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 losing	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	gerund		his life					vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Eventuality

Option 3

exile

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	exile	exile	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

being drowned

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 drowned	aux:pass
2	drowned	drown	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drown	gerund · passive							vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»

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