Test 12 · ★ · Told by the Natives, The Magic Mirror, part 1: Gopani-Kufa…

Bro, what did the king say when he heard about the mirror?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Bro · What happens: do, say, hear · To what, where: king · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 1137 «Told by the Natives, The Magic Mirror, part 1: Gopani-Kufa frees a python king and is promised a reward» 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	7 say	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Bro	acl:relcl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 king	det
6	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obj
7	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	10 heard	advmod
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 heard	nsubj
10	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 say	ccomp
11	about	about	ADP	_	13 mirror	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 mirror	det
13	mirror	mirror	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 heard	obl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 say	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	do	past	Bro	the king		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent king=Eventuality
2	say speech: assert	present	Bro			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	hear	past	Bro		about the mirror	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer about mirror=Stimulus

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

he sent his men out to find it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 sent	nsubj
2	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 men	nmod:poss
4	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 sent	obj
5	out	out	ADV	_	2 sent	advmod
6	to	to	PART	_	7 find	mark
7	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 sent	advcl
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 find	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	send out	past	he	his men				out property	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Theme
2	find	to-infinitive	he not said here	it					vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic

Option 2

he laughed and went back to bed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 laughed	nsubj
2	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 went	cc
4	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 laughed	conj
5	back	back	ADV	_	4 went	advmod
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 bed	case
7	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 went	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	laugh	past	he						vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	go back	past	he not said here					to bed result	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to bed=Result

Option 3

he got worried

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 got	nsubj
2	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	worried	worried	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 got	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	past	he					worried property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

he got proper troubled and started thinking

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 got	nsubj
2	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	proper	properly	ADV	_	2 got	advmod
4	troubled	troubled	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 got	xcomp
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 started	cc
6	started	start	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 got	conj
7	thinking	think	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 started	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	get	past	he	properly, troubled property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
2	start	past	he not said here		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	think speech: other	gerund	he not said here		vn focus-87.1-1 «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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