Exam question 4 · Book of Tales (pg18442), The Black Douglas: a castle won b…

Pray state the condition of the English garrison at the time of assault.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Pray · What happens: state, condition · To what, where: condition, English garrison

This is exam question 4 of lesson 345 «Book of Tales (pg18442), The Black Douglas: a castle won back at dusk» of the books course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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	Pray	Pray	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 state	nsubj
2	state	state	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 condition	det
4	condition	condition	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 state	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	8 garrison	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 garrison	det
7	English	English	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 garrison	amod
8	garrison	garrison	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 condition	nmod
9	at	at	ADP	_	11 time	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 time	det
11	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 state	obl
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 assault	case
13	assault	assault	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 time	nmod
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 state	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	state speech: other	past	Pray	the condition of the English garrison			time		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent condition=Topic
2	condition			the English garrison					nom condition «state transitive»: of=patient

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

They were engaged in festivity and unprepared

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 engaged	nsubj:pass
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 engaged	aux:pass
3	engaged	engage	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 festivity	case
5	festivity	festivity	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 engaged	obl
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 unprepared	cc
7	unprepared	unprepar	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 engaged	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	engage	past · passive		They				in festivity goal	vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP PP.goal»: subject=Theme in festivity=Goal
2	unprepar	past							tree rules

Option 2

They were feasting and off guard

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 feasting	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 feasting	aux
3	feasting	feast	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 guard	cc
5	off	off	ADP	_	6 guard	case
6	guard	guard	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 feasting	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	feast	past · progressive	They						vn dine-39.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

They were busy drinking and unarmed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 busy	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 busy	cop
3	busy	busy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	drinking	drink	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 busy	advcl
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 unarmed	cc
6	unarmed	unarmed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 busy	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is	past	They	busy property	tree rules
2	drink	gerund	They not said here		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	be		They not said here		tree rules

Option 4

They were drinking heavily and had neglected to post any sentries at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 drinking	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 drinking	aux
3	drinking	drink	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	heavily	heavily	ADV	_	3 drinking	advmod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 neglected	cc
6	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 neglected	aux
7	neglected	neglect	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 drinking	conj
8	to	to	PART	_	9 post	mark
9	post	post	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 neglected	xcomp
10	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	11 sentries	det
11	sentries	sentry	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 post	obj
12	at	at	ADP	_	13 all	case
13	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	9 post	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	drink	past · progressive	They			heavily property	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	neglect	past · perfect	They not said here				vn neglect-75.1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	not post	to-infinitive	They not said here	any sentries	all		vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sentry=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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