Test 7 · ★ · Celtic Fairy Tales, Conall Yellowclaw, part 8: a theft fro…

What did the king want for the pardon, pal?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: king · What happens: do, want

This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 1989 «Celtic Fairy Tales, Conall Yellowclaw, part 8: a theft from the king's stable, then a tale of cats» 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	2 did	nsubj
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 king	det
4	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 want	nsubj
5	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 did	ccomp
6	for	for	ADP	_	8 pardon	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 pardon	det
8	pardon	pardon	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 want	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 pal	punct
10	pal	pal	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 pardon	conj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past							tree rules
2	want	present	the king					for the pardon and pal	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot

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

A longer story

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 story	det
2	longer	long	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 story	amod
3	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

A harder tale

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 tale	det
2	harder	hard	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 tale	amod
3	tale	tale	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

A harder tale than the one he told

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 tale	det
2	harder	hard	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 tale	amod
3	tale	tale	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 told	nsubj
4	than	than	ADP	_	6 one	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 one	det
6	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 tale	nmod
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 told	nsubj
8	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	a harder tale than the one						vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

A harder tale of hunger and war and loss

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 tale	det
2	harder	hard	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 tale	amod
3	tale	tale	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 hunger	case
5	hunger	hunger	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 tale	nmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 war	cc
7	war	war	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 hunger	conj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 loss	cc
9	loss	loss	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 hunger	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell		hunger and war and loss						nom tale «communication intransitive»: of=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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