Test 7 · ★ · Tales from the Fjeld, King Lindorm, part 55: the forged le…

What were the bloody shirts about, fam?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: bloody · What happens: be, shirt · To what, where: fam

This is test 7 · ★ 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 bloody	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 bloody	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 bloody	det
4	bloody	bloody	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 shirts	nsubj
5	shirts	shirt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	about	about	ADV	_	5 shirts	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 fam	punct
8	fam	fam	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 shirts	obl
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 shirts	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past						bloody property	tree rules
2	shirt	present	the bloody	fam				about property	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 · ✓ the right answer

Spirits whipping Peter every day

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Spirits	spirit	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	whipping	whip	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	1 Spirits	acl
3	Peter	Peter	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 whipping	obj
4	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	5 day	det
5	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 whipping	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	whip	gerund	Spirits not said here	Peter			day		vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent peter=Material

Option 2

Peter's cursed blood spilled

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Peter	Peter	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 blood	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Peter	case
3	cursed	curse	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 blood	amod
4	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	spilled	spill	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 blood	acl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	curse	participle							vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	spill	participle		Peter's cursed blood not said here					vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

Blood stains

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 stains	compound
2	stains	stain	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 4

Spirits hunting the queen

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Spirits	spirit	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	hunting	hunt	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	1 Spirits	acl
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 queen	det
4	queen	queen	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 hunting	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hunt	gerund	Spirits not said here	the queen					vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent queen=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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