Test 5 · ★ · Crimson Fairy Book, The White Doe, part 36: the buffalo di…

Ngl, which bit was actually the saddest?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Ngl · What happens: be

This is test 5 · ★ 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	Ngl	Ngl	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 saddest	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 saddest	punct
3	which	which	DET	PronType=Int	4 bit	det
4	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 saddest	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 saddest	cop
6	actually	actually	ADV	_	8 saddest	advmod
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 saddest	det
8	saddest	sad	ADJ	Degree=Sup	root	root
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 saddest	punct

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

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 husband crying

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cry speech: express	gerund	the husband not said here						vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

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 3

The buffalo hunt with the whole tribe

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	3 hunt	nsubj
3	hunt	hunt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	with	with	ADP	_	7 tribe	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 tribe	det
6	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 tribe	amod
7	tribe	tribe	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hunt	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hunt	present	the buffalo					with the whole tribe	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

The girl dying with her whole family

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 girl	det
2	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	dying	die	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 girl	acl
4	with	with	ADP	_	7 family	case
5	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 family	nmod:poss
6	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 family	amod
7	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 dying	obl

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

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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