Test 5 · ★ · Household Tales, Frederick and Catherine: thieves flee fro…

wagwan, why'd the thieves bolt and leave all their gold?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: thieves · What happens: bolt, leave · To what, where: gold

This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 108 «Household Tales, Frederick and Catherine: thieves flee from what they think is the Evil One» 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	wagwan	wagwan	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 bolt	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	7 bolt	advmod
4	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 bolt	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 thieves	det
6	thieves	thief	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 bolt	nsubj
7	bolt	bolt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 wagwan	parataxis
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 leave	cc
9	leave	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 bolt	conj
10	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	12 gold	det:predet
11	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 gold	nmod:poss
12	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 leave	obj
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 wagwan	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bolt	would	the thieves						vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	leave	present	the thieves not said here	thieves's gold					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gold=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 · ✓ the right answer

They thought the Evil One

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 thought	nsubj
2	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 One	det
4	Evil	evil	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 One	amod
5	One	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 thought	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	They	the Evil One					vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot one=Theme

Option 2

Guards came

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Guards	guard	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 came	nsubj
2	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	Guards						vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

They were scared

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 scared	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 scared	cop
3	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	They					scared property	tree rules

Option 4

They saw a ghost

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 saw	nsubj
2	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 ghost	det
4	ghost	ghost	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 saw	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	past	They	a ghost					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer ghost=Stimulus

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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