Test 4 · ★ · Celtic Fairy Tales, The Giant's Soul, part 15: the king re…

Ken what the king was feart of, like, when the giant came?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Ken, giant · What happens: be, come · To what, where: feart

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 1290 «Celtic Fairy Tales, The Giant's Soul, part 15: the king reaches his wife, but the giant's soul stays hidden» 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	Ken	Ken	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 feart	nsubj
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 feart	nsubj
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 king	det
4	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 feart	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 feart	cop
6	feart	feart	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 like	case
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 of	punct
9	like	like	INTJ	_	6 feart	discourse
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 came	punct
11	when	when	SCONJ	_	14 came	mark
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 giant	det
13	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 came	nsubj
14	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 feart	conj
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 feart	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	Ken	feart					tree rules
2	come	past	the giant						vn escape-51.1-1 «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 · ✓ the right answer

being beaten by him

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
3	by	by	ADP	_	4 him	case
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 beaten	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	beat	gerund · passive	him = he						vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location

Option 2

being cut by the sword

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 cut	aux:pass
2	cut	cut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
3	by	by	ADP	_	5 sword	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 sword	det
5	sword	sword	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 cut	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cut	gerund · passive	the sword						vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

Option 3

being bitten by it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 bitten	aux:pass
2	bitten	bite	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
3	by	by	ADP	_	4 it	case
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 bitten	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bite	gerund · passive						by it	vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: by it=Location

Option 4

being beaten by him in a fight

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
3	by	by	ADP	_	4 him	case
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 beaten	obl
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 fight	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 fight	det
7	fight	fight	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 beaten	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	beat	gerund · passive	him = he			a fight			vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in fight=Location

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