Test 8 · ★ · Old English Tales, Robin Hood and Allin-a-Dale: Robin Hood…

Mans came running in a wave of green, how many?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Mans · What happens: come, run · To what, where: wave

This is test 8 · ★ 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	Mans	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 came	nsubj
2	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	running	run	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 came	advcl
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 wave	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 wave	det
6	wave	wave	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 running	obl
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 green	case
8	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 wave	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 many	punct
10	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	11 many	advmod
11	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 wave	conj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 came	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	Mans						vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	run	gerund	Mans not said here			a wave of green			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in wave=Trajectory

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

Three and twenty

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 twenty	cc
3	twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	1 Three	conj

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Four and twenty

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 twenty	cc
3	twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	1 Four	conj

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

Option 3

Like four and twenty dudes all dressed in green

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Like	like	ADP	_	2 four	case
2	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 dressed	nsubj:pass
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 twenty	cc
4	twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 four	conj
5	dudes	dude	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 dressed	aux
6	all	all	ADV	_	7 dressed	advmod
7	dressed	dress	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
8	in	in	ADP	_	9 green	case
9	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 dressed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dress	present · passive		four		green		all property	vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

Option 4

A whole big crowd of a hundred or more guys running

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 crowd	det
2	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 crowd	amod
3	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 crowd	amod
4	crowd	crowd	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	10 guys	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 hundred	det
7	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 guys	nummod
8	or	or	CCONJ	_	9 more	cc
9	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	7 hundred	conj
10	guys	guy	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 crowd	nmod
11	running	run	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 guys	acl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run	gerund	hundred guys not said here						vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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