Test 10 · ★ · Celtic Fairy Tales, The Lank Grey Beggarman: tricks, hangi…
Fam, what did the king do when he got fed up?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Fam · What happens: do, feed up · To what, where: king, Fam
This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 2006 «Celtic Fairy Tales, The Lank Grey Beggarman: tricks, hangings and a returned wife» 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 | Fam | fam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 do | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 did | punct |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 did | nsubj |
| 4 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Fam | acl:relcl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 king | det |
| 6 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 did | obj |
| 7 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 11 fed | mark |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 fed | nsubj |
| 10 | got | get | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 fed | aux:pass |
| 11 | fed | feed | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 do | advcl |
| 12 | up | up | ADP | _ | 11 fed | compound:prt |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 do | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | Fam | the king | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent king=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | do | present | Fam | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | feed up | past · passive | Fam | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: subject=Recipient |
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
Sent for the second harper
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sent | send | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 2 | for | for | ADP | _ | 5 harper | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 harper | det |
| 4 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 5 harper | amod |
| 5 | harper | harper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Sent | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send | participle | for the second harper | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
Option 2
Ordered his guards to leave
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ordered | order | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 guards | nmod:poss |
| 3 | guards | guard | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Ordered | obj |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 leave | mark |
| 5 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Ordered | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | order | past | his guards | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent guard=Recipient clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | leave not said to happen | to-infinitive | his guards not said here | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Ordered the first man hanged
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ordered | order | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 hanged | det |
| 3 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 5 hanged | amod |
| 4 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 hanged | compound |
| 5 | hanged | hanged | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Ordered | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | order | past | the first man hanged | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hanged=Theme |
Option 4
Ordered a hanging
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ordered | order | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 hanging | det |
| 3 | hanging | hanging | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Ordered | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | order | past | a hanging | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hanging=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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