Test 12 · ★ · Lang's Fairy Book, The Lute Player, part 1: a king is take…

Mental, how did the prisoners have to work?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: prisoners · What happens: have, work

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 1761 «Lang's Fairy Book, The Lute Player, part 1: a king is taken prisoner and his queen sets out disguised as a boy» 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	Mental	mental	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 have	punct
3	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	7 have	advmod
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 have	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 prisoners	det
6	prisoners	prisoner	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 have	nsubj
7	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Mental	conj
8	to	to	PART	_	9 work	mark
9	work	work	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 have	xcomp
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Mental	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past · do-support	the prisoners						tree rules
2	work	to-infinitive	the prisoners not said here						vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: 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

chained to carts

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	chained	chain	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	to	to	ADP	_	3 carts	case
3	carts	cart	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 chained	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chain	participle						to carts	vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle PP»: agent=Patient to cart=Co-Patient

Option 2

made to carry stones up the mountain in iron chains

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	to	to	PART	_	3 carry	mark
3	carry	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 made	xcomp
4	stones	stone	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 carry	obj
5	up	up	ADP	_	7 mountain	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 mountain	det
7	mountain	mountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 carry	obl
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 chains	case
9	iron	iron	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 chains	compound
10	chains	chain	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 carry	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	participle							tree rules
2	carry	to-infinitive		stones		iron chains		up the mountain	vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent stone=Value in chain=Location

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

yoked like oxen

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yoked	yoke	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	like	like	ADP	_	3 oxen	case
3	oxen	ox	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 yoked	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	yoke	participle						like oxen	vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient

Option 4

beaten in fields

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	beaten	beat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	in	in	ADP	_	3 fields	case
3	fields	field	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 beaten	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	beat	participle				fields			vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in field=Location

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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