Test 2 · ★ · West Highland Tales, The Steed of Bells, part 13: the thre…

Wait, who's the hen-wife's mate who sends the Queen off?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, mate · What happens: wait, be, send off · To what, where: mate, Queen

This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 1516 «West Highland Tales, The Steed of Bells, part 13: the three princes set out with the Thief of Sloan to reach the Knight's castle» 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	Wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 mate	punct
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 mate	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 mate	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 wife	det
6	hen	hen	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 wife	compound
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 hen	punct
8	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 mate	nmod:poss
9	's	's	PART	_	8 wife	case
10	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Wait	parataxis
11	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 sends	nsubj
12	sends	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 mate	acl:relcl
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 Queen	det
14	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 sends	obj
15	off	off	ADP	_	12 sends	compound:prt
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is a	present		the hen wife's mate	tree rules
3	send off	present	the hen wife's mate	the Queen	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent queen=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 · ← Mova's choice

Her proper mate, the old king who ruled the land for years

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 mate	nmod:poss
2	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 mate	amod
3	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 ruled	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 king	punct
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 king	det
6	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 king	amod
7	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 mate	conj
8	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 ruled	nsubj
9	ruled	rule	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 land	det
11	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 ruled	obj
12	for	for	ADP	_	13 years	case
13	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 ruled	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	rule	past	Her proper mate and the old king	the land			year		vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent land=Theme

Option 2

Nobody at all, she's just a proper old hen-wife who sends her off

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	13 wife	nsubj
2	at	at	ADP	_	3 all	case
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	1 Nobody	nmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nobody	punct
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 wife	nsubj
6	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 wife	cop
7	just	just	ADV	_	13 wife	advmod
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 wife	det
9	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 wife	amod
10	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 wife	amod
11	hen	hen	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 wife	compound
12	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 hen	punct
13	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
14	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 sends	nsubj
15	sends	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 wife	acl:relcl
16	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 sends	obj
17	off	off	ADP	_	15 sends	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Nobody	a proper old hen wife					tree rules
2	send off	present	a proper old hen wife	wife					vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme

Option 3

Her cousin, a sly old crone, mate

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 cousin	nmod:poss
2	cousin	cousin	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 crone	punct
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 crone	det
5	sly	sly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 crone	amod
6	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 crone	amod
7	crone	crone	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 cousin	appos
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 mate	punct
9	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 cousin	conj

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Nobody, she's a proper old hen-wife

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	10 wife	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nobody	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 wife	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 wife	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 wife	det
6	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 wife	amod
7	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 wife	amod
8	hen	hen	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 wife	compound
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 hen	punct
10	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Nobody	a proper old hen wife					tree rules

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