Test 8 · ★ · Household Tales, Hans Who Feared Nothing: Hans meets the d…

Yo, what's the gallows thing, mate?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be · To what, where: gallows thing

This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 1800 «Household Tales, Hans Who Feared Nothing: Hans meets the dwarfs and finds the hidden treasure» 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	Yo	yo	INTJ	_	7 thing	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yo	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 thing	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 thing	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 thing	det
6	gallows	gallows	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 thing	compound
7	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 mate	punct
9	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 thing	vocative
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 thing	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		the gallows thing				mate vocative	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

Two robbers swinging in wind

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 robbers	nummod
2	robbers	robber	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	swinging	swing	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 robbers	acl
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 wind	case
5	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 swinging	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	swing	gerund	Two robbers not said here					in wind	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in wind=Attribute

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Two evil-doers hanging up high

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 doers	nummod
2	evil	evil	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 doers	amod
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 evil	punct
4	doers	doer	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	hanging	hang	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 doers	acl
6	up	up	ADP	_	5 hanging	compound:prt
7	high	high	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 hanging	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hang up	gerund	Two evil doers not said here					high property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Two thieves dangling from ropes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 thieves	nummod
2	thieves	thief	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	dangling	dangle	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 thieves	acl
4	from	from	ADP	_	5 ropes	case
5	ropes	rope	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 dangling	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dangle	gerund	Two thieves not said here			ropes			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

Two murderers who were hanged for killing a farmer and stealing his cattle

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 murderers	nummod
2	murderers	murderer	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 hanged	nsubj
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 hanged	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 hanged	cop
5	hanged	hanged	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	for	for	SCONJ	_	7 killing	mark
7	killing	kill	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 hanged	advcl
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 farmer	det
9	farmer	farmer	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 killing	obj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 stealing	cc
11	stealing	steal	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 killing	conj
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 cattle	nmod:poss
13	cattle	cattle	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 stealing	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	Two murderers		hanged property	tree rules
2	kill	gerund	Two murderers not said here	a farmer		vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent farmer=Theme
3	steal	gerund	Two murderers not said here	farmer's cattle		vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location cattle=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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