Test 8 · ★ · Mogens and Other Stories, Jurgen the Eel-Breeder, part 179…

bro, what was the song jurgen was singing?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: song jurgen · What happens: sing

This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 968 «Mogens and Other Stories, Jurgen the Eel-Breeder, part 179: the shipwreck and Clara's death» 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	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 singing	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 singing	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	9 singing	obj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 singing	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 jurgen	det
6	song	song	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 jurgen	compound
7	jurgen	jurgen	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 singing	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 singing	aux
9	singing	sing	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 singing	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sing speech: express	past · progressive	the song jurgen					bro vocative	vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location what=Theme

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

a sailor's hymn

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 sailor	det
2	sailor	sailor	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hymn	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 sailor	case
4	hymn	hymn	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hymn		a sailor						nom hymn «communication intransitive»: poss=agent

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

the ballad of the old ship

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 ballad	det
2	ballad	ballad	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	6 ship	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 ship	det
5	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 ship	amod
6	ship	ship	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 ballad	nmod

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

the king of england's son

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 king	det
2	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	6 son	case
4	england	england	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 son	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 england	case
6	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 king	nmod

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

Option 4

the ballad of the brave northern prince and his long voyage

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 ballad	det
2	ballad	ballad	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	7 prince	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 prince	det
5	brave	brave	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 prince	amod
6	northern	northern	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 prince	amod
7	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 ballad	nmod
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 voyage	cc
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 voyage	nmod:poss
10	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 voyage	amod
11	voyage	voyage	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 ballad	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	voyage		his = he						nom voyage «act transitive»: poss=agent

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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