Test 2 · ★ · Crock of Gold, The Hundred Fighter, part 31: Conn chooses…

Bruv, why did Art get booted for a whole year?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: do, boot · To what, where: Art

This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 1063 «Crock of Gold, The Hundred Fighter, part 31: Conn chooses Becuma, Art is banished, and Ireland starves» 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	Bruv	Bruv	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 did	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Bruv	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 did	advmod
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	Art	Art	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 booted	nsubj
6	get	get	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 booted	aux:pass
7	booted	boot	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 did	ccomp
8	for	for	ADP	_	11 year	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 year	det
10	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 year	amod
11	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 booted	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past						Bruv vocative	tree rules
2	boot	infinitive · passive		Art			year		vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: subject=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 · ← Mova's choice

Becuma demanded it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Becuma	Becuma	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 demanded	nsubj
2	demanded	demand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 demanded	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	demand speech: request	past	Becuma	it					vn require-103-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Precondition

Option 2

Because the magicians said the blight came from him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Because	because	SCONJ	_	4 said	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 magicians	det
3	magicians	magician	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 blight	det
6	blight	blight	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 came	nsubj
7	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 said	ccomp
8	from	from	ADP	_	9 him	case
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 came	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the magicians						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	come	past	the blight					from him = he	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from he=Initial_Location

Option 3

Becuma asked for it because Art wouldn't marry her

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Becuma	Becuma	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 asked	nsubj
2	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	for	for	ADP	_	4 it	case
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 asked	obl
5	because	because	SCONJ	_	9 marry	mark
6	Art	Art	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 marry	nsubj
7	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 marry	aux
8	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 marry	advmod
9	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 asked	advcl
10	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 marry	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	past	Becuma					for it	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	not marry	would	Art	Becuma					vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Becuma asked for it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Becuma	Becuma	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 asked	nsubj
2	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	for	for	ADP	_	4 it	case
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 asked	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	past	Becuma					for it	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=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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