Test 9 · ★ · Historical Tales, The King and His Hawk, part 14: a thirst…

Ngl, what were hawks trained to do back then?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Ngl · What happens: be, train, do back · To what, where: hawks, Ngl

This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 354 «Historical Tales, The King and His Hawk, part 14: a thirsty king is kept from drinking by his pet hawk» 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	Ngl	Ngl	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 trained	nsubj:pass
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 hawks	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 hawks	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 hawks	cop
5	hawks	hawk	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Ngl	conj
6	trained	train	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 do	mark
8	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 trained	xcomp
9	back	back	ADV	_	8 do	advmod
10	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 do	advmod
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 trained	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	is a	past	Ngl and hawks	hawks		tree rules
2	train	participle · passive		Ngl and hawks		vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP to be NP»: subject=Theme clause=Attribute
3	do back	to-infinitive	Ngl and hawks not said here		then	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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

hunt

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	hunt	hunt	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hunt	imperative	you not said here						vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

to hunt game on horseback

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	2 hunt	mark
2	hunt	hunt	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	game	game	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 hunt	obj
4	on	on	ADP	_	5 horseback	case
5	horseback	horseback	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 hunt	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hunt	to-infinitive		game		horseback			vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent game=Theme on horseback=Location

Option 3

fly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	fly	fly	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fly	imperative	you not said here						vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

guard

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	guard	guard	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

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