Test 6 · ★ · Celtic Fairy Tales, The Giant's Soul, part 15: the king re…

Dude, what did the otter promise the king, like?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: otter · What happens: promise · To what, where: Dude, king

This is test 6 · ★ 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	Dude	dude	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 promise	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 promise	obj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 promise	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 otter	det
6	otter	otter	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 promise	nsubj
7	promise	promise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Dude	conj
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 king	det
9	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 promise	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 like	punct
11	like	like	ADP	_	7 promise	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Dude	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	promise speech: promise	past · do-support	the otter	Dude	the king				vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent what=Goal king=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

his wife back by noon tomorrow, no question

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 wife	nmod:poss
2	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	back	back	ADV	_	2 wife	advmod
4	by	by	ADP	_	5 noon	case
5	noon	noon	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 wife	nmod
6	tomorrow	tomorrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 wife	nmod:unmarked
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 question	punct
8	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	9 question	det
9	question	question	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 wife	conj

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

Option 2

his horses by dusk

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 horses	nmod:poss
2	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	by	by	ADP	_	4 dusk	case
4	dusk	dusk	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 horses	nmod

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

Option 3

wife and horses back by noon tomorrow

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 back	nsubj
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 horses	cc
3	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 wife	conj
4	back	back	ADV	_	root	root
5	by	by	ADP	_	6 noon	case
6	noon	noon	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 back	obl
7	tomorrow	tomorrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 back	obl:unmarked

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

wife by noon tomorrow

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	by	by	ADP	_	3 noon	case
3	noon	noon	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 wife	nmod
4	tomorrow	tomorrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 wife	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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