Test 13 · ★ · Old English Tales, Robin Hood and Allin-a-Dale: Robin Hood…

Were the rich folks his target, or the poor ones?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: rich folks · What happens: be · To what, where: target

This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 344 «Old English Tales, Robin Hood and Allin-a-Dale: Robin Hood helps a sad young man win back his bride from a rich old suitor» 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	Were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 target	cop
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 folks	det
3	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 folks	amod
4	folks	folk	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 target	nsubj
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 target	nmod:poss
6	target	target	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 ones	punct
8	or	or	CCONJ	_	11 ones	cc
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 ones	det
10	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 ones	amod
11	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 target	conj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 target	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	the rich folks	his target or the poor ones					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 poor

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 poor	det
2	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

The rich who did no work

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 rich	det
2	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 did	nsubj
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	6 work	det
6	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	the rich	no work					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent work=Eventuality

Option 3

The rich lords who cheat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 lords	det
2	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 lords	amod
3	lords	lord	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 cheat	nsubj
5	cheat	cheat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 lords	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cheat	present	the rich lords						vn cheat-10.6.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 4

The rich

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 rich	det
2	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	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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