Test 9 · ★ · Celtic Fairy Tales, The Castle of Kerglas, part 43: the st…

Why can't Rogear swing his lance inside?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Rogear · What happens: not swing · To what, where: lance

This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 1318 «Celtic Fairy Tales, The Castle of Kerglas, part 43: the stones crush the sorcerer, and Peronnik hears of the magic basin» 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	5 swing	advmod
2	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 swing	aux
3	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 swing	advmod
4	Rogear	Rogear	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 swing	nsubj
5	swing	swing	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 lance	nmod:poss
7	lance	lance	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 swing	obj
8	inside	inside	ADV	_	5 swing	advmod
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 swing	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not swing	can	Rogear	Rogear's lance				inside property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent lance=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 · ✓ the right answer

a spell says no lance in there

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 spell	det
2	spell	spell	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 says	nsubj
3	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	5 lance	det
5	lance	lance	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 says	obj
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 there	case
7	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 says	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	a spell	no lance					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent lance=Topic

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

the castle roof is made of gold

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 roof	det
2	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 roof	compound
3	roof	roof	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 made	nsubj:pass
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 made	aux:pass
5	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 gold	case
7	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 made	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present · passive		the castle roof				of gold	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product

Option 3

the door is too low for lances

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 door	det
2	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 low	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 low	cop
4	too	too	ADV	_	5 low	advmod
5	low	low	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	for	for	ADP	_	7 lances	case
7	lances	lance	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 low	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the door					for lances; low property	tree rules

Option 4

a holy spell from the hermit says no lance may enter the walls of the castle

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 spell	det
2	holy	holy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 spell	amod
3	spell	spell	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 says	nsubj
4	from	from	ADP	_	6 hermit	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 hermit	det
6	hermit	hermit	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 spell	nmod
7	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	9 lance	det
9	lance	lance	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 enter	nsubj
10	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 enter	aux
11	enter	enter	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 says	ccomp
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 walls	det
13	walls	wall	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 enter	obj
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 castle	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 castle	det
16	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 walls	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	a holy spell from the hermit						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	enter	may	no lance	the walls of the castle					vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme wall=Destination

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