Test 14 · ★ · Yellow Fairy Book, The Magic Horse: music saves the youth…

Honest question, where do they plan to hang the youth?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: they · What happens: plan, hang · To what, where: youth

This is test 14 · ★ of lesson 683 «Yellow Fairy Book, The Magic Horse: music saves the youth from the gallows, and he is made king» 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	Honest	honest	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 question	amod
2	question	question	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 plan	punct
4	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	7 plan	advmod
5	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 plan	aux
6	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 plan	nsubj
7	plan	plan	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 question	appos
8	to	to	PART	_	9 hang	mark
9	hang	hang	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 plan	xcomp
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 youth	det
11	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 hang	obj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 question	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	plan	present · do-support	they						vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	hang not said to happen	to-infinitive	they not said here	the youth					vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent youth=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

Beside the great oak tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Beside	beside	ADP	_	5 tree	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 tree	det
3	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 tree	amod
4	oak	oak	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 tree	compound
5	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

At the foot of the tall gallows near the river bank, in front of the whole crowd

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	At	at	ADP	_	3 foot	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 foot	det
3	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	7 gallows	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 gallows	det
6	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 gallows	amod
7	gallows	gallows	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 foot	nmod
8	near	near	ADP	_	11 bank	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 bank	det
10	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 bank	compound
11	bank	bank	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 gallows	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 front	punct
13	in	in	ADP	_	14 front	case
14	front	front	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 foot	conj
15	of	of	ADP	_	18 crowd	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 crowd	det
17	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 crowd	amod
18	crowd	crowd	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 front	nmod

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

At the foot of the gallows

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	At	at	ADP	_	3 foot	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 foot	det
3	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 gallows	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 gallows	det
6	gallows	gallows	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 foot	nmod

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

Option 4

At the foot of the gallows built in the courtyard

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	At	at	ADP	_	3 foot	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 foot	det
3	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 gallows	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 gallows	det
6	gallows	gallows	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 foot	nmod
7	built	build	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 gallows	acl
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 courtyard	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 courtyard	det
10	courtyard	courtyard	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 built	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	build	participle		the gallows not said here				in the courtyard	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in courtyard=Attribute

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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