Test 10 · ★ · More Celtic Fairy Tales, The Believing Husbands: three sil…

The bishop's spell, what was it on Rhiannon, then?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: spell, bishop · What happens: be, spell · To what, where: Rhiannon

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1334 «More Celtic Fairy Tales, The Believing Husbands: three silly husbands are tricked by clever wives, and one of them runs naked to a burial» 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 bishop	det
2	bishop	bishop	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 spell	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 bishop	case
4	spell	spell	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 Rhiannon	punct
6	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	10 Rhiannon	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 Rhiannon	cop
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 was	obj
9	on	on	ADP	_	10 Rhiannon	case
10	Rhiannon	Rhiannon	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 spell	appos
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 Rhiannon	punct
12	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 spell	advmod
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 spell	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the bishop's spell			Rhiannon			tree rules
2	spell		the bishop						nom spell «state transitive»: poss=agent

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

She had to wear his bells round her neck.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 wear	mark
4	wear	wear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 had	xcomp
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 bells	nmod:poss
6	bells	bell	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 wear	obj
7	round	round	ADP	_	9 neck	case
8	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 neck	nmod:poss
9	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wear	obl
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 had	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	She						tree rules
2	wear	to-infinitive	She not said here	his bells				round her neck	vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent bell=Theme

Option 2

She had to carry his bags on her back.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 carry	mark
4	carry	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 had	xcomp
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 bags	nmod:poss
6	bags	bag	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 carry	obj
7	on	on	ADP	_	9 back	case
8	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 back	nmod:poss
9	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 carry	obl
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 had	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	She						tree rules
2	carry	to-infinitive	She not said here	his bags		her back			vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bag=Theme

Option 3

She wore a collar.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 wore	nsubj
2	wore	wear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 collar	det
4	collar	collar	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 wore	obj
5	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 wore	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wear	past	She	a collar					vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent collar=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

She had to wear the collars of his asses round her neck

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 wear	mark
4	wear	wear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 had	xcomp
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 collars	det
6	collars	collar	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 wear	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 asses	case
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 asses	nmod:poss
9	asses	ass	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 collars	nmod
10	round	round	ADP	_	12 neck	case
11	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 neck	nmod:poss
12	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wear	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	She						tree rules
2	wear	to-infinitive	She not said here	the collars of his asses				round her neck	vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent collar=Theme

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