Test 10 · ★ · Fifty Famous Stories Retold, King Alfred and the Beggar, p…

how was he gonna call the army together?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: he · What happens: be

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 341 «Fifty Famous Stories Retold, King Alfred and the Beggar, part 1: Alfred shares his last bread and wine, then sees a vision» 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	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	5 call	advmod
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 call	cop
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 call	nsubj
4	gonna	gonna	PART	_	5 call	mark
5	call	call	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 army	det
7	army	army	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 call	obj
8	together	together	ADV	_	5 call	advmod
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 call	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	he					call, together 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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

blow his horn three times, loud

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	blow	blow	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 horn	nmod:poss
3	horn	horn	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 blow	obj
4	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 times	nummod
5	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 blow	obl:unmarked
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 loud	punct
7	loud	loud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 blow	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	blow	imperative	you not said here	his horn			time		vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent horn=Patient

Option 2

send a rider to each town, quick

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	send	send	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 rider	det
3	rider	rider	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 send	obj
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 town	case
5	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	6 town	det
6	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 send	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 quick	punct
8	quick	quick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 town	amod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	send	imperative	you not said here	a rider		each town			vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent rider=Theme to town=Destination

Option 3

send a rider

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	send	send	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 rider	det
3	rider	rider	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 send	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	send	imperative	you not said here	a rider					vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rider=Theme

Option 4

beat his shield at dawn, very loud

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	beat	beat	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 shield	nmod:poss
3	shield	shield	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 beat	obj
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 dawn	case
5	dawn	dawn	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 beat	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 loud	punct
7	very	very	ADV	_	8 loud	advmod
8	loud	loud	ADV	_	1 beat	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	beat	imperative	you not said here	his shield			dawn	loud property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location shield=Theme

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