Test 2 · ★ · Book of Tales (pg18442), The Black Douglas: a castle won b…

Mate, who was the Douglas buddies with?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be

This is test 2 · ★ 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	Mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 buddies	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 buddies	punct
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 buddies	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 buddies	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Douglas	det
6	Douglas	Douglas	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 buddies	nsubj
7	buddies	buddy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	with	with	ADP	_	7 buddies	obl
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 buddies	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past						Mate vocative; buddy property	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

Sir William Wallace

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sir	Sir	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 William	nmod:desc
2	William	William	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	Wallace	Wallace	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 William	flat

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

Option 2

Some English lord who ruled the border lands

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	3 lord	det
2	English	English	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 lord	amod
3	lord	lord	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 ruled	nsubj
5	ruled	rule	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 lord	acl:relcl
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 lands	det
7	border	border	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 lands	compound
8	lands	land	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 ruled	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	rule	past	some English lord	the border lands					vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent land=Theme

Option 3

King Edward, I think

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	King	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Edward	nmod:desc
2	Edward	Edward	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 think	vocative
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Edward	punct
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 think	nsubj
5	think	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	present	I					Edward King vocative	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

King Robert Bruce

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Robert	nmod:desc
2	Robert	Robert	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	Bruce	Bruce	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Robert	flat

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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