Test 9 · ★ · Contes, The Pied Piper of Hamel, part 49: Drakestail becom…

Blud, who was the old white rat, then?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be · To what, where: old white rat

This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 1552 «Contes, The Pied Piper of Hamel, part 49: Drakestail becomes king, and the piper clears Hamel of rats, then the children vanish» 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	Blud	Blud	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 rat	dislocated
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 rat	punct
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 rat	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 rat	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 rat	det
6	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 rat	amod
7	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 rat	amod
8	rat	rat	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 then	punct
10	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 rat	advmod
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 rat	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the old white rat			then	Blud dislocated	tree rules

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

Friend Blanchet, the old white king of all the rats

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Friend	friend	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	Blanchet	Blanchet	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Friend	obj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 king	punct
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 king	det
5	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 king	amod
6	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 king	amod
7	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Blanchet	appos
8	of	of	ADP	_	11 rats	case
9	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	11 rats	det:predet
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 rats	det
11	rats	rat	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 king	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	friend	imperative	you not said here	Blanchet					tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Friend Blanchet, the king of the rats

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Friend	friend	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	Blanchet	Blanchet	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Friend	obj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 king	punct
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 king	det
5	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Blanchet	appos
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 rats	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 rats	det
8	rats	rat	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 king	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	friend	imperative	you not said here	Blanchet					tree rules

Option 3

Friend Brown, the rat of the cellar

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Brown	nmod:desc
2	Brown	Brown	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 rat	punct
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 rat	det
5	rat	rat	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Brown	appos
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 cellar	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 cellar	det
8	cellar	cellar	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 rat	nmod

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

Option 4

Friend Blanchet, the Counsellor's rat who led them out

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Friend	friend	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	Blanchet	Blanchet	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Friend	obj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 rat	punct
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Counsellor	det
5	Counsellor	Counsellor	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 rat	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 Counsellor	case
7	rat	rat	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Blanchet	appos
8	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 led	nsubj
9	led	lead	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 rat	acl:relcl
10	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 led	obj
11	out	out	ADP	_	9 led	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	friend	imperative	you not said here	Blanchet					tree rules
2	lead out	past	the Counsellor's rat	them = they					vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme

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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