Test 3 · ★ · World Tales, How Geirald The Coward Was Punished, part 1:…

that ring was bling, right? whose was it before?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: ring · What happens: be

This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 1219 «World Tales, How Geirald The Coward Was Punished, part 1: two friends ride off, Rosald wins the fight, and Geirald takes the glory» 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	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 ring	det
2	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 bling	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 bling	cop
4	bling	bling	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 bling	punct
6	right	right	INTJ	_	4 bling	discourse
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 bling	punct
8	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	11 before	nmod:poss
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 before	cop
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 before	nsubj
11	before	before	ADV	_	4 bling	advmod
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 bling	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	that ring					bling property	tree rules
2	is	past	ring					before 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

his dad's old friend's

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 dad	nmod:poss
2	dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 friend	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 dad	case
4	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 friend	amod
5	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	's	's	PART	_	5 friend	case

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

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

the robber chief's, taken from a dead merchant

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 chief	det
2	robber	robber	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 chief	compound
3	chief	chief	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	's	's	PART	_	3 chief	case
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 taken	punct
6	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 chief	acl
7	from	from	ADP	_	10 merchant	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 merchant	det
9	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 merchant	amod
10	merchant	merchant	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 taken	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	participle		the robber chief not said here		a dead merchant			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent from merchant=Initial_Location

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

the robber chief's

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 chief	det
2	robber	robber	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 chief	compound
3	chief	chief	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	's	's	PART	_	3 chief	case

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

Option 4

the robber chief's, from his own hand that morning

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 chief	det
2	robber	robber	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 chief	compound
3	chief	chief	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 hand	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 chief	case
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 hand	punct
6	from	from	ADP	_	9 hand	case
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 hand	nmod:poss
8	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 hand	amod
9	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
10	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 morning	det
11	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 hand	obl:unmarked

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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