Test 5 · ★ · Celtic Fairy Tales, The Winning of Olwen, part 1: a queen'…

Who even told the new queen about the boy, like?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: tell · To what, where: new queen · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 1337 «Celtic Fairy Tales, The Winning of Olwen, part 1: a queen's grave, a forgetful king, and a prophecy about Olwen» 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	3 told	nsubj
2	even	even	ADV	_	3 told	advmod
3	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 queen	det
5	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 queen	amod
6	queen	queen	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 told	obj
7	about	about	ADP	_	9 boy	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 boy	det
9	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 queen	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 like	punct
11	like	like	ADP	_	3 told	ccomp
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 told	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past			the new queen				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent queen=Recipient about boy=Topic

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

Her old nurse from home

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 nurse	nmod:poss
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 nurse	amod
3	nurse	nurse	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	from	from	ADP	_	5 home	case
5	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 nurse	nmod

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Some old woman she was visiting

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	3 woman	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 woman	amod
3	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 visiting	nsubj
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 visiting	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 visiting	aux
6	visiting	visit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	visit	past · progressive	some old woman						vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Some old lady at the market

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	3 lady	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 lady	amod
3	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	at	at	ADP	_	6 market	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 market	det
6	market	market	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lady	nmod

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

Option 4

Her servant

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 servant	nmod:poss
2	servant	servant	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

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