Test 11 · ★ · Indian Tales, Adventures of an Indian Brave, part 1: the m…

Real talk, what did the son do when the blind women were eating?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: son, blind women · What happens: do, eat · To what, where: Real talk

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 1191 «Indian Tales, Adventures of an Indian Brave, part 1: the mink escapes the wolves, and a brave's father drowns and returns as a baby» 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	Real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 talk	amod
2	talk	talk	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 do	punct
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	8 do	obj
5	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 do	aux
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 son	det
7	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 do	nsubj
8	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 talk	acl:relcl
9	when	when	SCONJ	_	14 eating	mark
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 women	det
11	blind	blind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 women	amod
12	women	woman	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 eating	nsubj
13	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 eating	aux
14	eating	eat	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 do	advcl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 talk	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past · do-support	the son	Real talk					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality
2	eat	past · progressive	the blind women						vn eat-39.1-1 «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

He sat and watched them eat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 sat	nsubj
2	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 watched	cc
4	watched	watch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 sat	conj
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 watched	obj
6	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 watched	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	sit	past	He		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	watch	past	He not said here	them = they	tree rules
3	eat	infinitive	them = they not said here		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

He ate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 ate	nsubj
2	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	past	He						vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

He took a bite of the food

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 took	nsubj
2	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 bite	det
4	bite	bite	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 took	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 food	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 food	det
7	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 bite	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	past	He	a bite of the food					vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bite=Theme
2	bite			the food					nom bite «state transitive»: of=patient

Option 4

He left

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 left	nsubj
2	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leave	past	He						vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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