Test 13 · ★ · Indian Folk Tales, The Turtle and His Bride, part 1: the h…

What did the turtle chant to scare the dancers off, mate?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · What happens: do, scare off · To what, where: turtle chant, dancers

This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 1218 «Indian Folk Tales, The Turtle and His Bride, part 1: the hare brings fire home, the turtle goes to war for his bride» 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	2 did	nsubj
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 chant	det
4	turtle	turtle	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 chant	compound
5	chant	chant	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 did	obj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 scare	mark
7	scare	scare	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 chant	acl
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 dancers	det
9	dancers	dancer	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 scare	obj
10	off	off	ADP	_	7 scare	compound:prt
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 mate	punct
12	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 chant	conj
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past		the turtle chant and mate					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chant=Eventuality
2	scare off	to-infinitive		the dancers					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus dancer=Experiencer

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

Go away

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	away	away	ADV	_	1 Go	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go away	imperative	you not said here					away property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

Stay back

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Stay	stay	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	back	back	ADV	_	1 Stay	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stay back	imperative	you not said here						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

Whoever enters this place dies

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Whoever	whoever	PRON	PronType=Rel	2 enters	nsubj
2	enters	enter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 place	det
4	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 dies	nsubj
5	dies	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 enters	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	enter	present	Whoever						tree rules
2	die	present	this place						vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Whoever comes here will die

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Whoever	whoever	PRON	PronType=Rel	2 comes	nsubj
2	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 comes	advmod
4	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 die	aux
5	die	die	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 comes	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	present	Whoever			here			tree rules
2	die	future	Whoever not said here						vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

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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