Test 10 · ★ · Lang's Fairy Book, The Bunyip: young fishermen catch a Bun…

why did Father Grumbler go to the tavern, mate?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Father · What happens: go · To what, where: tavern

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1213 «Lang's Fairy Book, The Bunyip: young fishermen catch a Bunyip cub, its angry mother rises from the pool, and the youths are turned into swans» 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	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	5 go	advmod
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 go	aux
3	Father	Father	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 go	nsubj
4	Grumbler	Grumbler	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Father	flat
5	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 tavern	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 tavern	det
8	tavern	tavern	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 go	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 mate	punct
10	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 tavern	conj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 go	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past · do-support	Father			the tavern and mate			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to tavern=Initial_Location

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

to find his lost wife

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	2 find	mark
2	find	find	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 wife	nmod:poss
4	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 wife	amod
5	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 find	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	find	to-infinitive		his lost wife					vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wife=Topic
2	lose	participle							vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

to chase away Care

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	2 chase	mark
2	chase	chase	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	away	away	ADV	_	2 chase	advmod
4	Care	Care	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 chase	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chase away	to-infinitive		Care				away property	vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent care=Theme

Option 3

to watch the men play cards all night

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	2 watch	mark
2	watch	watch	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 men	det
4	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 play	nsubj
5	play	play	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 watch	ccomp
6	cards	card	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 play	obj
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 night	det
8	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 play	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	watch	to-infinitive							tree rules
2	play	present	the men	cards			night		vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent card=Theme

Option 4

to forget his debts

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	2 forget	mark
2	forget	forget	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 debts	nmod:poss
4	debts	debt	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 forget	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	forget	to-infinitive		his debts					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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