Test 6 · ★ · Celtic Fairy Tales, Tom Ochlin: Tom fetches the burning fl…

Mate, what was the princess on about with fifty halves?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Mate · What happens: be · To what, where: princess, fifty halves

This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 2022 «Celtic Fairy Tales, Tom Ochlin: Tom fetches the burning flail from hell and the Danes run off» 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	Mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 princess	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 princess	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 princess	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 princess	det
6	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Mate	conj
7	on	on	ADP	_	11 halves	case
8	about	about	ADV	_	10 fifty	advmod
9	with	with	ADP	_	10 fifty	case
10	fifty	fifty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 halves	nummod
11	halves	half	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 princess	nmod
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Mate	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	Mate and the princess	the princess		fifty halves			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

She was talking about her gold rings

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 talking	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 talking	aux
3	talking	talk	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	about	about	ADP	_	7 rings	case
5	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 rings	nmod:poss
6	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 rings	compound
7	rings	ring	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 talking	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	talk	past · progressive	She					about her gold rings	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about ring=Topic

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

She meant she'd marry the sea king

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 meant	nsubj
2	meant	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 marry	nsubj
4	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 marry	aux
5	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 meant	ccomp
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 king	det
7	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 king	compound
8	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 marry	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	past	She						vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	marry	would	she	the sea king					vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent king=Patient

Option 3

She was joking

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 joking	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 joking	aux
3	joking	joke	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	joke speech: other	past · progressive	She						vn chit_chat-37.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

She meant she'd give Tom all of herself

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 meant	nsubj
2	meant	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 give	nsubj
4	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 give	aux
5	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 meant	ccomp
6	Tom	Tom	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 give	iobj
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 give	obj
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 herself	case
9	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	7 all	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	past	She						vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	give	would	she	all	Tom				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent tom=Recipient all=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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