Test 12 · ★ · Legendary Fictions of the Irish Celts, A Lost Paradise: a…

What did the wife reckon the king was, lads?

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

This is test 12 · ★ 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 reckon	obj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 reckon	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 wife	det
4	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 reckon	nsubj
5	reckon	reckon	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 king	det
7	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 reckon	obj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 king	cop
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 lads	punct
10	lads	lad	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 king	conj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 reckon	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	reckon	past · do-support	the wife						vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent what=Attribute
2	is a	past		the king and lads					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 · ✓ the right answer

Too good-natured

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Too	too	ADV	_	2 good	advmod
2	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 natured	ccomp
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 good	punct
4	natured	nature	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

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

Option 2

Mean

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mean	mean	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	imperative	you not said here						vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Far too good-natured for his own good

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 natured	advmod
2	too	too	ADV	_	3 good	advmod
3	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Far	amod
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	1 Far	punct
5	natured	nature	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	for	for	ADP	_	8 own	case
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 own	nmod:poss
8	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 natured	obl
9	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 natured	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	nature	participle						for his own; far, good property	tree rules

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Too foolish

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Too	too	ADV	_	2 foolish	advmod
2	foolish	foolish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

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