Test 12 · ★ · Popular Tales, The Black Thief and the Knight of the Glen,…

Whit did the Thief fear most in the vault?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Whit · What happens: do · To what, where: Thief fear

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 1517 «Popular Tales, The Black Thief and the Knight of the Glen, part 14: the thieves are caught, and the Black Thief tells two tales to save his neck» 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	Whit	whit	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 did	nsubj
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 fear	det
4	Thief	Thief	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 fear	compound
5	fear	fear	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 did	obj
6	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	5 fear	nmod
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 vault	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 vault	det
9	vault	vault	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 most	nmod
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	Whit	the Thief fear most in the vault					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fear=Eventuality

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

Losin the gold tae thieves

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Losin	Losin	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 thieves	det
3	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tae	compound
4	tae	tae	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 thieves	compound
5	thieves	thief	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Losin	list

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

Option 2

Losin his life tae the guards who might come doon the stair

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Losin	Losin	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 life	compound
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 life	nmod:poss
3	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 come	nsubj
4	tae	tae	ADP	Foreign=Yes	6 guards	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 guards	det
6	guards	guard	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 life	nmod
7	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 come	nsubj
8	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 come	aux
9	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
10	doon	doon	ADV	_	9 come	advmod
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 stair	det
12	stair	stair	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 come	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	might	his Losin life tae the guards	the stair				doon property	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location stair=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Losin his life tae the guards

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Losin	Losin	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 life	compound
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 life	nmod:poss
3	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	tae	tae	ADP	Foreign=Yes	6 guards	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 guards	det
6	guards	guard	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 life	nmod

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

Option 4

Bein caught wi the gold an' hung in the square by the bishop's men

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Bein	Bein	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 caught	nsubj
2	caught	catch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	wi	wi	ADP	_	5 gold	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 gold	det
5	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 caught	obl
6	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 hung	nsubj:pass
7	'	'	PUNCT	_	8 hung	punct
8	hung	hang	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 caught	parataxis
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 square	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 square	det
11	square	square	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 hung	obl
12	by	by	ADP	_	16 men	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 bishop	det
14	bishop	bishop	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 men	nmod:poss
15	's	's	PART	_	14 bishop	case
16	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 hung	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	catch	past	Bein					wi the gold	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	hang	participle · passive	the bishop's men	an		the square			vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent subject=Theme in square=Destination

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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