Test 1 · ★ · Stories of Old England, King Canute on the Seashore: Canut…

Oi, who was Canute, innit?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Oi · What happens: be, innit · To what, where: Canute

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 342 «Stories of Old England, King Canute on the Seashore: Canute orders the sea to stop and gets soaked» 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	Oi	Oi	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 innit	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 Canute	punct
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 Canute	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 Canute	cop
5	Canute	Canute	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Oi	appos
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Oi	punct
7	innit	innit	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 innit	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	Oi	Canute					tree rules
2	innit	infinitive	Oi						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

A soldier

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 soldier	det
2	soldier	soldier	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

A Dane who got made king

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 Dane	det
2	Dane	Dane	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 made	nsubj:pass
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 made	nsubj
4	got	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 made	aux:pass
5	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 made	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	past · passive		a Dane					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary king=Product

Option 3

A king who was a Saxon

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 king	det
2	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 Saxon	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 Saxon	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 Saxon	det
6	Saxon	Saxon	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 king	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	a king	a Saxon					tree rules

Option 4

A Saxon

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 Saxon	det
2	Saxon	Saxon	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

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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