Test 2 · ★ · Tales from the Fjeld, King Lindorm, part 55: the forged le…

Like, which letter tricked the king, though?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: letter · What happens: trick · To what, where: king

This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 1666 «Tales from the Fjeld, King Lindorm, part 55: the forged letters and the flight to the hut» 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	Like	like	INTJ	_	5 tricked	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 tricked	punct
3	which	which	DET	PronType=Int	4 letter	det
4	letter	letter	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 tricked	nsubj
5	tricked	trick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 king	det
7	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 tricked	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 though	punct
9	though	though	SCONJ	_	5 tricked	advmod
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 tricked	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	trick	past	which letter	the king					vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent king=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

The letter that said the whelps and queen should be burned at dawn

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 letter	det
2	letter	letter	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 burned	nsubj:pass
3	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 letter	acl:relcl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 whelps	det
6	whelps	whelp	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 said	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 queen	cc
8	queen	queen	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 whelps	conj
9	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 burned	aux
10	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	11 burned	aux:pass
11	burned	burn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
12	at	at	ADP	_	13 dawn	case
13	dawn	dawn	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 burned	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the letter	the whelps and queen					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent whelp=Topic
2	burn	should · passive		the letter			dawn		vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme

Option 2

The letter that ordered the queen's death

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 letter	det
2	letter	letter	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 ordered	nsubj
4	ordered	order	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 letter	acl:relcl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 queen	det
6	queen	queen	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 death	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 queen	case
8	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 ordered	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	order	past	the letter	the queen's death					vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent death=Theme
2	die		the queen						nom death «event intransitive»: poss=agent

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

The one about the sheep

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 one	det
2	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	about	about	ADP	_	5 sheep	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 sheep	det
5	sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 one	nmod

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

The one saying the whelps get burned

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 one	det
2	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 burned	nsubj:pass
3	saying	say	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 one	acl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 whelps	det
5	whelps	whelp	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 saying	obj
6	get	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 burned	aux:pass
7	burned	burn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	gerund	the one not said here	the whelps					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent whelp=Topic
2	burn	present · passive		the one					vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme

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