Test 4 · ★ · Fairy Book, Jose and the White Horse, part 52: Jose pays d…

wait, why was the lady bawling?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, lady · What happens: wait, be, bawl · To what, where: lady

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 1186 «Fairy Book, Jose and the White Horse, part 52: Jose pays debts, rises at court, and is sent to find the princess» 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	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 lady	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	6 lady	advmod
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 lady	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 lady	det
6	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 wait	obl
7	bawling	bawl	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 lady	acl
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is a	past		the lady	tree rules
3	bawl speech: other	gerund	the lady not said here		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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

lost her cat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	lost	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 cat	nmod:poss
3	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 lost	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	past		her cat					vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cat=Eventuality

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

husband was dying

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 dying	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 dying	aux
3	dying	die	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	die	past · progressive	husband						vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

Option 3

money was gone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 gone	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 gone	cop
3	gone	gone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 4

son was sick

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sick	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sick	cop
3	sick	sick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

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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