Test 9 · ★ · Lang Fairy Tales, The Knights of the Fish, part 1: a magic…

fr, what's the deal with that black castle?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: fr · What happens: be · To what, where: deal

This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 1262 «Lang Fairy Tales, The Knights of the Fish, part 1: a magic fish gives a poor cobbler two sons who go looking for adventure» 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	fr	fr	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 deal	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 deal	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 deal	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 deal	det
6	deal	deal	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 fr	appos
7	with	with	ADP	_	10 castle	case
8	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	10 castle	det
9	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 castle	amod
10	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 deal	nmod
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 fr	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	fr	the deal				with that black castle	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

it's a ruin, and bandits live there

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 ruin	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 ruin	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 ruin	det
4	ruin	ruin	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 live	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 live	cc
7	bandits	bandit	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 live	nsubj
8	live	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 ruin	acl:relcl
9	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 live	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	it	a ruin					tree rules
2	live	present	bandits	a ruin not said here		there			vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme ruin=Location

Option 2

it's lonely, with no road to it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 lonely	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 lonely	cop
3	lonely	lonely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 road	punct
5	with	with	ADP	_	7 road	case
6	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	7 road	det
7	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lonely	obl
8	to	to	ADP	_	9 it	case
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 road	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	it					with no road to road; lonely property	tree rules

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

it's enchanted, and nobody came back

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 enchanted	nsubj:pass
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 enchanted	aux
3	enchanted	enchant	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 came	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 came	cc
6	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	7 came	nsubj
7	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 enchanted	ccomp
8	back	back	ADV	_	7 came	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	enchant	present · passive		it					tree rules
2	come back	past	nobody						vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

it's haunted, no

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 haunted	nsubj:pass
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 haunted	aux:pass
3	haunted	haunt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 haunted	punct
5	no	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	3 haunted	discourse

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	haunt	present · passive		it					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer

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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