Test 6 · ★ · Fairy Tales (pg640), The Magic Ring, part 5: the youth ste…

Who did the youth go to for help, though?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: go

This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 1681 «Fairy Tales (pg640), The Magic Ring, part 5: the youth steals the ring and gets ready to fight the Dragon» 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	5 go	nsubj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 go	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 youth	det
4	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 go	nsubj
5	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	to	to	ADP	_	5 go	obl
7	for	for	ADP	_	8 help	case
8	help	help	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 go	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 though	punct
10	though	though	SCONJ	_	5 go	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 go	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past · do-support						for help	vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for help=Beneficiary

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

His mate, the king

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 mate	nmod:poss
2	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 king	punct
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 king	det
5	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 mate	conj

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

Option 2

The old priest who knew birds

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 priest	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 priest	amod
3	priest	priest	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 knew	nsubj
5	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 priest	acl:relcl
6	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 knew	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	know	past	the old priest	birds					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer bird=Stimulus

Option 3

The wise woman in the village

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 woman	det
2	wise	wise	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 woman	amod
3	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 village	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 village	det
6	village	village	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 woman	nmod

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

The magician who taught him bird talk

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 magician	det
2	magician	magician	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 taught	nsubj
4	taught	teach	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 magician	acl:relcl
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 taught	obj
6	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 talk	compound
7	talk	talk	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 taught	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	teach speech: other	past	the magician	bird talk	him = he				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient talk=Topic

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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