Test 12 · ★ · Crimson Fairy Book, The White Doe, part 36: the buffalo di…

What did the medicine-man say would kill everyone?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: medicine man · What happens: say, kill · To what, where: everyone · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 12 · ★ 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 say	obj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 say	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 man	det
4	medicine	medicine	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 man	compound
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 medicine	punct
6	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 say	nsubj
7	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 kill	aux
9	kill	kill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 say	ccomp
10	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	9 kill	obj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 say	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past · do-support	the medicine man						tree rules
2	kill	would		everyone					vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everyone=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 · ✓ the right answer

The buffalo dying

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 buffalo	det
2	buffalo	buffalo	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	dying	die	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 buffalo	acl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	die	gerund	the buffalo not said here						vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

Option 2

The famine

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 famine	det
2	famine	famine	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

The wife's illness

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 wife	det
2	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 illness	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 wife	case
4	illness	illness	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

The winter

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 winter	det
2	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

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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