Test 1 · ★ · Crimson Fairy Book, The White Doe, part 36: the buffalo di…

Yo, did you read the buffalo bit?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you · What happens: read · To what, where: buffalo bit

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 1170 «Crimson Fairy Book, The White Doe, part 36: the buffalo dies, the wife poisons herself, and a queen is promised a daughter» 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	Yo	yo	INTJ	_	5 read	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yo	punct
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 read	aux
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 read	nsubj
5	read	read	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 bit	det
7	buffalo	buffalo	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 bit	compound
8	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 read	obj
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 read	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	read	past · do-support	you	the buffalo bit					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bit=Topic

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

Yeah, the wife lied about her mum to go home

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 lied	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 lied	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 wife	det
4	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 lied	nsubj
5	lied	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	about	about	ADP	_	8 mum	case
7	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 mum	nmod:poss
8	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 lied	obl
9	to	to	PART	_	10 go	mark
10	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 lied	advcl
11	home	home	ADV	_	10 go	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lie	past	the wife					about wife's mum	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent about mum=Location
2	go	to-infinitive	the wife not said here					home property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

Nah, the buffalo was the wife's servant

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	9 servant	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 buffalo	det
4	buffalo	buffalo	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 servant	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 servant	cop
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 wife	det
7	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 servant	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 wife	case
9	servant	servant	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	the buffalo	the wife's servant					tree rules

Option 3

Yeah, mostly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	3 mostly	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	mostly	mostly	ADV	_	root	root

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

Option 4

Nah, skipped it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	3 skipped	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	skipped	skip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 skipped	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	skip	past		it					vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

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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