Test 12 · ★ · Indian Tales, Adventures of an Indian Brave, part 1: the m…

Okay, what did the mink do before the dance started?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: mink, dance · What happens: do, start

This is test 12 · ★ 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	Okay	okay	INTJ	_	4 did	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Okay	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 mink	det
6	mink	mink	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 do	nsubj
7	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 did	parataxis
8	before	before	SCONJ	_	11 started	mark
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 dance	det
10	dance	dance	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 started	nsubj
11	started	start	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 do	advcl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	roles by
1	do	past		vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	do	present	the mink	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	start	participle	the dance	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 · ✓ the right answer

He asked for one last dance

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 asked	nsubj
2	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	for	for	ADP	_	6 dance	case
4	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 dance	nummod
5	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 dance	amod
6	dance	dance	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 asked	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	past	He					for one last dance	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

He asked the wolves to let him have one last dance before they bound his hands with the kelp

The tree, 19 words

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 asked	nsubj
2	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 wolves	det
4	wolves	wolf	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 asked	obj
5	to	to	PART	_	6 let	mark
6	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 asked	ccomp
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 let	obj
8	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 let	xcomp
9	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 dance	nummod
10	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 dance	amod
11	dance	dance	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 have	obj
12	before	before	SCONJ	_	14 bound	mark
13	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 bound	nsubj
14	bound	bound	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 have	advcl
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 hands	nmod:poss
16	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 bound	obj
17	with	with	ADP	_	19 kelp	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 kelp	det
19	kelp	kelp	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 bound	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	past	He	the wolves		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent wolf=Recipient clause=Topic
2	let not said to happen	to-infinitive		him = he		tree rules
3	have	infinitive	him = he not said here	one last dance		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dance=Patient
4	bound	present	wolves = wolf	his hands	with the kelp	vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location hand=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

He asked to be allowed to take one final look at the sea before the wolves bound him

The tree, 18 words

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 asked	nsubj
2	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	5 allowed	mark
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 allowed	aux:pass
5	allowed	allow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 asked	ccomp
6	to	to	PART	_	7 take	mark
7	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 asked	ccomp
8	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 look	nummod
9	final	final	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 look	amod
10	look	look	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 take	obj
11	at	at	ADP	_	13 sea	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 sea	det
13	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 take	obl
14	before	before	SCONJ	_	17 bound	mark
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 wolves	det
16	wolves	wolf	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 bound	nsubj
17	bound	bound	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 take	advcl
18	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 bound	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	past	He			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	allow not said to happen	to-infinitive · passive				vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V S_ING»
3	take not said to happen	to-infinitive		one final look	the sea	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent look=Theme at sea=Asset
4	bound	present	the wolves	him = he		vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location he=Theme

Option 4

He asked for one more song

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 asked	nsubj
2	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	for	for	ADP	_	6 song	case
4	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 song	nummod
5	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	6 song	amod
6	song	song	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 asked	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	past	He					for one more song	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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