Test 10 · ★ · Fairy Book, Toueno-Boueno, part 20: the boy tricks the far…

Where'd they reckon the horses were, then?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: they · What happens: reckon, be · To what, where: horses

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1295 «Fairy Book, Toueno-Boueno, part 20: the boy tricks the farmers and sends them to their deaths in the river, and a new tale, The Brown Bear of Norway, begins» 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	Where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	4 reckon	advmod
2	'd	'd	PUNCT	_	4 reckon	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 reckon	nsubj
4	reckon	reckon	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 horses	det
6	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 reckon	obj
7	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 horses	cop
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 reckon	punct
9	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 reckon	advmod
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 reckon	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	reckon	present	they				then		vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
2	is a	past		the horses					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 · ← Mova's choice

at the horse fair under the river where the dead gather

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	at	at	ADP	_	3 horse	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 horse	det
3	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fair	obl
4	fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	under	under	ADP	_	7 river	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 river	det
7	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fair	obl
8	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	11 gather	advmod
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 gather	det
10	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 gather	amod
11	gather	gather	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 river	nmod

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

Option 2

at a great horse fair under the river, far beneath the mountains

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	at	at	ADP	_	4 horse	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 horse	det
3	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 horse	amod
4	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 fair	obl
5	fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	under	under	ADP	_	8 river	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 river	det
8	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 fair	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 mountains	punct
10	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	13 mountains	advmod
11	beneath	beneath	ADP	_	13 mountains	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 mountains	det
13	mountains	mountain	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 fair	conj

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

at the horse fair under the river

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	at	at	ADP	_	3 horse	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 horse	det
3	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fair	obl
4	fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	under	under	ADP	_	7 river	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 river	det
7	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fair	obl

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

Option 4

in the field beside the old mill

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	in	in	ADP	_	3 field	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 field	det
3	field	field	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	beside	beside	ADP	_	7 mill	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 mill	det
6	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 mill	amod
7	mill	mill	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 field	nmod

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

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