Test 3 · ★ · Book of Tales (pg18442), The Black Douglas: a castle won b…

Which castle was the Scots' target, innit?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: castle, target · What happens: be, innit · To what, where: target

This is test 3 · ★ 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	Which	which	DET	PronType=Int	2 castle	det
2	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 target	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 target	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Scots	det
5	Scots	Scot	PROPN	Number=Plur	7 target	nmod:poss
6	'	's	PART	_	5 Scots	case
7	target	target	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 innit	punct
9	innit	innit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 target	acl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 target	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	which castle	the Scots's target					tree rules
2	innit	infinitive	the Scots's target not said here						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 one the English seized

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 one	det
2	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 seized	nsubj
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 English	det
4	English	English	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 seized	nsubj
5	seized	seize	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	seize	past	the one						vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 2

The one the Scots lost

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 one	det
2	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 lost	nsubj
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Scots	det
4	Scots	Scot	PROPN	Number=Plur	5 lost	nsubj
5	lost	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	past	the one						vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

The castle near the moor

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 castle	det
2	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	near	near	ADP	_	5 moor	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 moor	det
5	moor	moor	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 castle	nmod

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

The one the English nicked early on

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 one	det
2	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 nicked	nsubj
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 English	det
4	English	English	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 nicked	nsubj
5	nicked	nick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	early	early	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 nicked	advmod
7	on	on	ADV	_	5 nicked	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	nick	past	the one					early property	vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient

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