Test 5 · ★ · Gutenberg 27200, The Jewish Maiden: a Jewish servant keeps…
Wait, who paid the ransom to free the knight?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you · What happens: wait, pay · To what, where: ransom
This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 865 «Gutenberg 27200, The Jewish Maiden: a Jewish servant keeps her vow, hears a knight's legend and is buried outside the churchyard wall» 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 | Wait | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 paid | punct |
| 3 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 paid | nsubj |
| 4 | paid | pay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Wait | advcl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 ransom | det |
| 6 | ransom | ransom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 paid | obj |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 free | mark |
| 8 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 ransom | amod |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 knight | det |
| 10 | knight | knight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 free | nsubj |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Wait | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wait | imperative | you not said here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | pay | past | the ransom | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ransom=Asset |
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
His wife and his friends
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 wife | nmod:poss |
| 2 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 friends | cc |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 friends | nmod:poss |
| 5 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 wife | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
His wife and the friends who sold their land for him
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 wife | nmod:poss |
| 2 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 friends | cc |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 friends | det |
| 5 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 wife | conj |
| 6 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 sold | nsubj |
| 7 | sold | sell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 friends | acl:relcl |
| 8 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 land | nmod:poss |
| 9 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sold | obj |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 him | case |
| 11 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 sold | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sell | past | the friends | friends's land | for him = he | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent land=Theme for he=Asset |
Option 3
His sons and the church
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 sons | nmod:poss |
| 2 | sons | son | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 church | cc |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 church | det |
| 5 | church | church | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 sons | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
His brother and the bishop
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 brother | nmod:poss |
| 2 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 bishop | cc |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 bishop | det |
| 5 | bishop | bishop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 brother | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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