Test 10 · ★ · Legendary Fictions of the Irish Celts, A Lost Paradise: a…
What did the king say would happen, boss?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: king · What happens: say, happen · To what, where: boss · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1286 «Legendary Fictions of the Irish Celts, A Lost Paradise: a hungry couple is given a palace, then loses it by lifting a lid» 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 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 say | obj |
| 2 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 say | aux |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 king | det |
| 4 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 say | nsubj |
| 5 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 happen | aux |
| 7 | happen | happen | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 say | ccomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 boss | punct |
| 9 | boss | boss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 happen | obl |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 say | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past · do-support | the king | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | happen | would | boss | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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
It would end their good luck for ever and ever
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 end | nsubj |
| 2 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 end | aux |
| 3 | end | end | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 luck | nmod:poss |
| 5 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 luck | amod |
| 6 | luck | luck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 end | obj |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 ever | case |
| 8 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 3 end | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 ever | cc |
| 10 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 8 ever | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | end | would | It | their good luck | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality luck=Eventuality |
Option 2
Their whole good fortune would end right away, boss
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 fortune | nmod:poss |
| 2 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 fortune | amod |
| 3 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 fortune | amod |
| 4 | fortune | fortune | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 end | nsubj |
| 5 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 end | aux |
| 6 | end | end | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | right | right | ADV | _ | 8 away | advmod |
| 8 | away | away | ADV | _ | 6 end | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 boss | punct |
| 10 | boss | boss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 end | parataxis |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | end | would | Their whole good fortune | away property | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
Option 3
It would end their happy days
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 end | nsubj |
| 2 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 end | aux |
| 3 | end | end | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 days | nmod:poss |
| 5 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 days | amod |
| 6 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 end | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | end | would | It | day | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
It would end their good luck
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 end | nsubj |
| 2 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 end | aux |
| 3 | end | end | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 luck | nmod:poss |
| 5 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 luck | amod |
| 6 | luck | luck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 end | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | end | would | It | their good luck | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality luck=Eventuality |
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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