Test 6 · ★ · Fairy Book, Jose and the White Horse, part 52: Jose pays d…

fam, what job did jose start with?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: fam · What happens: job, start

This is test 6 · ★ 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	fam	fam	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 start	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 job	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 job	nsubj
4	job	job	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 fam	conj
5	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 start	aux
6	jose	Jose	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 start	nsubj
7	start	start	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	with	with	ADP	_	7 start	obl
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 start	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	job		fam and job						tree rules
2	start	past · do-support	fam and job						vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

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

cook's helper

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cook	cook	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 helper	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 cook	case
3	helper	helper	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

cleaning stables

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cleaning	clean	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	stables	stable	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 cleaning	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	clean	gerund		stables					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent stable=Patient

Option 3

sweeping the palace yard

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	sweeping	sweep	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 yard	det
3	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 yard	compound
4	yard	yard	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 sweeping	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sweep	gerund		the palace yard					vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme yard=Trajectory

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

carrying the bath water

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	carrying	carry	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 water	det
3	bath	bath	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 water	compound
4	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 carrying	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	carry	gerund		the bath water					vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=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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