Test 7 · ★ · Red Fairy Book, The Story of Sigurd, part 80: the Musician…

Gutted, what did the old King tell his wife to keep?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: old King · What happens: gut, tell, keep · To what, where: wife · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 1583 «Red Fairy Book, The Story of Sigurd, part 80: the Musician's last trick, then Sigurd's birth and Regin's tale of the gold» 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	Gutted	gut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 tell	advcl
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Gutted	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	8 tell	obj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 tell	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 King	det
6	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 King	amod
7	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 tell	nsubj
8	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 wife	nmod:poss
10	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 tell	obj
11	to	to	PART	_	12 keep	mark
12	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 tell	xcomp
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 tell	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	roles by
1	gut	participle	the old King not said here		vn pit-10.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	tell speech: assert	past · do-support	the old King	King's wife	tree rules
3	keep not said to happen	to-infinitive	the old King not said here		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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

The sword, mate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 sword	det
2	sword	sword	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 mate	punct
4	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sword	conj

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

The broken sword bits, mate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 bits	det
2	broken	break	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 bits	amod
3	sword	sword	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 bits	compound
4	bits	bit	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 mate	punct
6	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 bits	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	break	participle							vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient

Option 3

The golden ring, mate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 ring	det
2	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 ring	amod
3	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 mate	punct
5	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 ring	conj

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

Option 4

The bits, mate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 bits	det
2	bits	bit	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 mate	punct
4	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 bits	conj

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

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