Test 13 · ★ · Fairy Book (pg3027), The White Slipper, part 61: Andras ki…

Real talk, why's the doc not stayin' at court?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: doc · What happens: not be · To what, where: stayin, court

This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 1195 «Fairy Book (pg3027), The White Slipper, part 61: Andras kills the Stalo's dog and takes his gold, then the sick king gets a magic slipper» 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	_	9 stayin	punct
4	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	9 stayin	advmod
5	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 stayin	cop
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 doc	det
7	doc	doc	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 stayin	nsubj
8	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 stayin	advmod
9	stayin	stayin	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 talk	appos
10	'	'	PUNCT	_	9 stayin	punct
11	at	at	ADP	_	12 court	case
12	court	court	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 stayin	nmod
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 talk	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is a	present	the doc	stayin		court			tree rules

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 wanted to travel home soon

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 wanted	nsubj
2	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 travel	mark
4	travel	travel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 wanted	xcomp
5	home	home	ADV	_	4 travel	advmod
6	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 travel	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	He						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	travel not said to happen	to-infinitive	He not said here					home, soon property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

He is lazy

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	3 lazy	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 lazy	cop
3	lazy	lazy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	He					lazy property	tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Sick folks were waiting at home

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sick	sick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 folks	amod
2	folks	folk	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 waiting	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 waiting	aux
4	waiting	wait	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 home	case
6	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 waiting	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	past · progressive	Sick folks			home			vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at home=Location

Option 4

His horse was sick at home

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 horse	nmod:poss
2	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sick	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 sick	cop
4	sick	sick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 home	case
6	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sick	obl

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

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