Test 10 · ★ · Yellow Fairy Book, Graciosa and Percinet, part 38: the Duc…

Who had to hold the Duchess up on the horse, mate?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: have, hold up · To what, where: Duchess

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1541 «Yellow Fairy Book, Graciosa and Percinet, part 38: the Duchess gets her gold and is thrown from the horse» 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	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 hold	mark
4	hold	hold	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 had	xcomp
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Duchess	det
6	Duchess	Duchess	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 hold	obj
7	up	up	ADP	_	4 hold	compound:prt
8	on	on	ADP	_	10 horse	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 horse	det
10	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hold	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 mate	punct
12	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 horse	conj
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 had	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past							tree rules
2	hold up	to-infinitive		the Duchess				on the horse and mate	vn support-15.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot duchess=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

eight officers of the royal household guard

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	eight	eight	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 officers	nummod
2	officers	officer	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	7 guard	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 guard	det
5	royal	royal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 guard	amod
6	household	household	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 guard	compound
7	guard	guard	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 officers	nmod

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

Option 2

the whole crowd of courtiers from the hall

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 crowd	det
2	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 crowd	amod
3	crowd	crowd	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 courtiers	case
5	courtiers	courtier	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 crowd	nmod
6	from	from	ADP	_	8 hall	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 hall	det
8	hall	hall	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 courtiers	nmod

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

Option 3

nine stable hands

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nine	nine	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 hands	nummod
2	stable	stable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 hands	amod
3	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

eight officers

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	eight	eight	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 officers	nummod
2	officers	officer	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

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