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Test 4 · ★ · Yellow Fairy Book, The Bird of Truth, part 54: the twins r…

Mate, the twins were gutted when they saw that hut. What was the problem with it?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: twins, problem · What happens: gut, see, be · To what, where: twins, hut

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 1188 «Yellow Fairy Book, The Bird of Truth, part 54: the twins run off, reach a shut hut, and overhear swallows talking about a queen and a crystal cradle» 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

Sentence 1: Mate, the twins were gutted when they saw that hut.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 gutted	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Mate	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 twins	det
4	twins	twin	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 gutted	nsubj:pass
5	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 gutted	aux:pass
6	gutted	gut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	9 saw	advmod
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 saw	nsubj
9	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 gutted	advcl
10	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	11 hut	det
11	hut	hut	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 saw	obj
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 gutted	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	gut	past · passive		the twins				Mate vocative	vn pit-10.7 «NP V NP»: subject=Source
2	see	past	twins = twin	that hut					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer hut=Stimulus

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.

Sentence 2: What was the problem with it?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 problem	det
4	problem	problem	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
5	with	with	ADP	_	6 it	case
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 problem	nmod
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	the problem with Mate						tree rules

The options

Option 1

the walls were covered in thick ivy and moss

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 walls	det
2	walls	wall	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 covered	nsubj:pass
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 covered	aux:pass
4	covered	cover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 ivy	case
6	thick	thick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 ivy	amod
7	ivy	ivy	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 covered	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 moss	cc
9	moss	moss	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 ivy	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cover	past · passive		the walls				in thick ivy and moss	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination in ivy=Theme

Option 2

the roof had fallen

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 roof	det
2	roof	roof	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fallen	nsubj
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 fallen	aux
4	fallen	fall	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall	past · perfect	the roof						vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

the window was broken

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 window	det
2	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 broken	nsubj:pass
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 broken	aux:pass
4	broken	break	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	break	past · passive		the window					vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

the door was shut

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 door	det
2	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 shut	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 shut	cop
4	shut	shut	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the door					shut 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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