Test 10 · ★ · Book of Tales, Ian the Fisher's Son: the princess saves th…

Who was the oldest fish in the tribe, mate?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be · To what, where: oldest fish, tribe

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1303 «Book of Tales, Ian the Fisher's Son: the princess saves the true winner and chooses him» 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	Who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 fish	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 fish	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 fish	det
4	oldest	old	ADJ	Degree=Sup	5 fish	amod
5	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 tribe	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 tribe	det
8	tribe	tribe	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 fish	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 mate	punct
10	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 fish	parataxis
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 fish	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the oldest fish		the tribe			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

Old Thuggai, the eldest of the tribe

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 Thuggai	amod
2	Thuggai	Thuggai	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 eldest	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 eldest	punct
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 eldest	det
5	eldest	eld	ADJ	Degree=Sup	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 tribe	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 tribe	det
8	tribe	tribe	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 eldest	obl

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

Option 2

Grandfather Thuggai of the river fish

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Grandfather	grandfather	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	Thuggai	Thuggai	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Grandfather	obj
3	of	of	ADP	_	6 fish	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 fish	det
5	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 fish	compound
6	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Grandfather	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grandfather	imperative	you not said here	Thuggai				of the river fish	tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Thuggai

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Thuggai	Thuggai	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

Dorran

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Dorran	Dorran	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

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