Test 12 · ★ · Celtic Fairy Tales, The Story-Teller at Fault, part 1: the…

So the king at the end of the first tale, was he happy or what?

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

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 2005 «Celtic Fairy Tales, The Story-Teller at Fault, part 1: the story-teller loses everything at dice and is turned into a hare» 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	So	so	ADV	_	14 happy	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 king	det
3	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 happy	nsubj
4	at	at	ADP	_	6 end	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 end	det
6	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 king	nmod
7	of	of	ADP	_	10 tale	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 tale	det
9	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	10 tale	amod
10	tale	tale	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 end	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 king	punct
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 happy	cop
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 happy	nsubj
14	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
15	or	or	CCONJ	_	16 what	cc
16	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 happy	conj
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	14 happy	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the king at the end of the first tale					happy property	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 · ✓ the right answer

he was delighted

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 delighted	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 delighted	cop
3	delighted	delighted	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

he was delighted and rewarded them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 delighted	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 delighted	cop
3	delighted	delighted	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 rewarded	cc
5	rewarded	reward	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 delighted	conj
6	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 rewarded	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	he					delighted property	tree rules
2	reward	past	he not said here	them = they					vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient

Option 3

he was furious

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 furious	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 furious	cop
3	furious	furious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 4

he was amazed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 amazed	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 amazed	cop
3	amazed	amazed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	he					amazed 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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