Test 1 · ★ · Book of Tales (pg18442), The Black Douglas: a castle won b…

Oi, why'd folk call the Black Douglas that?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: call · To what, where: Oi · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 1 · ★ 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. 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	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 call	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	6 call	advmod
4	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 call	aux
5	folk	folk	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 call	compound
6	call	call	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Oi	acl:relcl
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Douglas	det
8	Black	Black	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 Douglas	compound
9	Douglas	Douglas	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 call	xcomp
10	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 call	obj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Oi	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	call	would		Oi					vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent that=Recipient

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

'Cause his hair and beard were black as coal from birth

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	'	'	PUNCT	_	8 black	punct
2	Cause	cause	SCONJ	_	8 black	mark
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 hair	nmod:poss
4	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 black	nsubj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 beard	cc
6	beard	beard	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hair	conj
7	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 black	cop
8	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
9	as	as	ADP	_	10 coal	case
10	coal	coal	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 black	obl
11	from	from	ADP	_	12 birth	case
12	birth	birth	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 black	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	his hair and beard			birth		as coal; black property	tree rules

Option 2

'Cause everyone reckoned his hair and beard looked black in the sun

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	'	'	PUNCT	_	4 reckoned	punct
2	Cause	cause	SCONJ	_	3 everyone	case
3	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	4 reckoned	obl
4	reckoned	reckon	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 hair	nmod:poss
6	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 reckoned	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 looked	cc
8	beard	beard	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 looked	nsubj
9	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 reckoned	conj
10	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 looked	xcomp
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 sun	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 sun	det
13	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 looked	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	reckon	past		his hair				cause everyone	vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent hair=Attribute
2	look	past	beard					in the sun; black property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in sun=Theme

Option 3

'Cause his beard was dark

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	'	'	PUNCT	_	6 dark	punct
2	Cause	cause	SCONJ	_	4 beard	case
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 beard	nmod:poss
4	beard	beard	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 dark	obl
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 dark	cop
6	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past						cause his beard; dark property	tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

'Cause his hair and beard were black

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	'	'	PUNCT	_	4 hair	punct
2	Cause	cause	SCONJ	_	4 hair	case
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 hair	nmod:poss
4	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 black	nsubj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 beard	cc
6	beard	beard	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hair	conj
7	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 black	cop
8	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	his hair and beard					black property	tree rules

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