Test 6 · ★ · West Highland Tales, The Steed of Bells, part 13: the thre…

What's the Steed of Bells' whole deal then?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Steed · What happens: be, deal · To what, where: Bells

This is test 6 · ★ 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Steed	det
4	Steed	steed	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
5	of	of	ADP	_	9 deal	case
6	Bells	bell	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 deal	nmod:poss
7	'	's	PART	_	6 Bells	case
8	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 deal	amod
9	deal	deal	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 Steed	nmod
10	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	1 What	advmod
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the Steed of Bells's whole deal				then		tree rules
2	deal			Bells					nom deal «act transitive»: poss=patient

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

A grey horse with silver hooves, dead fast

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 horse	det
2	grey	grey	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 horse	amod
3	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 dead	nsubj
4	with	with	ADP	_	6 hooves	case
5	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 hooves	compound
6	hooves	hoove	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 horse	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 dead	punct
8	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
9	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	8 dead	advmod

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

Option 2

Sixty bells on a silk cover, mental loud and it rings all night long

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sixty	sixty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 bells	nummod
2	bells	bell	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 loud	nsubj
3	on	on	ADP	_	6 cover	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 cover	det
5	silk	silk	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 cover	compound
6	cover	cover	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 bells	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 loud	punct
8	mental	mental	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 loud	amod
9	loud	loud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 rings	cc
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 rings	nsubj
12	rings	ring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 loud	conj
13	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	14 night	det
14	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 rings	obl:unmarked
15	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	12 rings	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ring	present	cover				night	long property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Sixty bells on a leather bridle, mental quick

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sixty	sixty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 bells	nummod
2	bells	bell	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	on	on	ADP	_	6 bridle	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 bridle	det
5	leather	leather	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 bridle	compound
6	bridle	bridle	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 bells	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 bells	punct
8	mental	mental	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 quick	amod
9	quick	quick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 bells	amod

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Sixty bells on a silk cover, mental loud

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sixty	sixty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 bells	nummod
2	bells	bell	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 loud	nsubj
3	on	on	ADP	_	6 cover	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 cover	det
5	silk	silk	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 cover	compound
6	cover	cover	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 bells	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 bells	punct
8	mental	mental	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 loud	amod
9	loud	loud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

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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