Test 2 · ★ · Celtic Fairy Tales, The Groac'h of the Isle of Lok, part 5…

bruh, Bellah gave him a knife and a bell, like what even is that combo?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Bellah · What happens: give, be · To what, where: knife, him, combo

This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 1330 «Celtic Fairy Tales, The Groac'h of the Isle of Lok, part 55: Houarn leaves Bellah and is lured to the Groac'h's shell palace» 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	bruh	bruh	INTJ	_	4 gave	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 bruh	punct
3	Bellah	Bellah	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 gave	nsubj
4	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 gave	iobj
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 knife	det
7	knife	knife	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 gave	obj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 bell	cc
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 bell	det
10	bell	bell	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 knife	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 what	punct
12	like	like	ADP	_	13 what	case
13	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 gave	parataxis
14	even	even	ADV	_	17 combo	advmod
15	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 combo	cop
16	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	17 combo	det
17	combo	combo	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 what	nsubj
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 gave	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	past	Bellah	a knife and a bell	him = he				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient knife=Theme
2	is a	present		that combo					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

a knife for spells

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 knife	det
2	knife	knife	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	for	for	ADP	_	4 spells	case
4	spells	spell	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 knife	nmod

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

Option 2

knife breaks curses, bell rings for trouble

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	knife	knife	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 breaks	nsubj
2	breaks	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	curses	curse	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 breaks	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 rings	punct
5	bell	bell	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 rings	compound
6	rings	ring	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 curses	conj
7	for	for	ADP	_	8 trouble	case
8	trouble	trouble	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 breaks	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	break	present	knife	curses and bell rings				for trouble	vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer curse=Patient

Option 3

a bell for danger

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 bell	det
2	bell	bell	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	for	for	ADP	_	4 danger	case
4	danger	danger	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 bell	nmod

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

a knife to break spells, a bell for danger

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 knife	det
2	knife	knife	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 break	mark
4	break	break	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 knife	acl
5	spells	spell	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 break	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 bell	punct
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 bell	det
8	bell	bell	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 knife	appos
9	for	for	ADP	_	10 danger	case
10	danger	danger	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 bell	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	break	to-infinitive		spells					vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer spell=Patient

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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