Test 5 · ★ · pg641, Halfman, part 62: the ogre's kin burn, the ogress f…

What's the ogress want in return for helping him, bruv?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: ogress · What happens: be, help · To what, where: return, him

This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 1811 «pg641, Halfman, part 62: the ogre's kin burn, the ogress falls, and a son is promised away» 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	5 want	obj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 want	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 ogress	det
4	ogress	ogress	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 want	nsubj
5	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 return	case
7	return	return	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 want	obl
8	for	for	SCONJ	_	9 helping	mark
9	helping	help	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 want	advcl
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 helping	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 bruv	punct
12	bruv	bruv	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 helping	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 want	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the ogress			return		want property	tree rules
2	help	gerund	the ogress not said here		him = he			bruv obl	vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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

A ride on his horse

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 ride	det
2	ride	ride	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	on	on	ADP	_	5 horse	case
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 horse	nmod:poss
5	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 ride	nmod

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

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Half his dad's money

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Half	half	DET	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind	3 dad	det:predet
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 dad	nmod:poss
3	dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 money	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 dad	case
5	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

His new trainers

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	3 trainers	nmod:poss
2	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 trainers	amod
3	trainers	trainer	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

The first son Halfman has

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 son	det
2	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	3 son	amod
3	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 has	nsubj
4	Halfman	Halfman	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 son	appos
5	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	the first son						vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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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