Test 5 · ★ · Fairy Book, Mannikin, part 29: a mocked Ambassador, a war,…

Who was the proper legend on the battlefield then?

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

This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 1892 «Fairy Book, Mannikin, part 29: a mocked Ambassador, a war, and Brandatimor defeated» 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 legend	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 legend	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 legend	det
4	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 legend	amod
5	legend	legend	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 battlefield	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 battlefield	det
8	battlefield	battlefield	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 legend	nmod
9	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 legend	advmod
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 legend	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the proper legend		the battlefield	then		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 spaniels, they were class

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 spaniels	det
2	spaniels	spaniel	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 class	punct
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 class	nsubj
5	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 class	cop
6	class	class	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 spaniels	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	spaniels = spaniel	class					tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Mannikin, he was dead good at it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mannikin	Mannikin	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 good	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Mannikin	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 good	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 good	cop
5	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 good	amod
6	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 it	case
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 good	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	Mannikin			it		good property	tree rules

Option 3

Mannikin, proper legend

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mannikin	Mannikin	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Mannikin	punct
3	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 legend	amod
4	legend	legend	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Mannikin	appos

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

Option 4

Brandatimor, he was pretty decent

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Brandatimor	Brandatimor	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 decent	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 decent	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 decent	cop
5	pretty	pretty	ADV	_	6 decent	advmod
6	decent	decent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Brandatimor	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	Brandatimor					decent, pretty property	tree rules

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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