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Test 9 · ★ · Indian Folk Tales, The Turtle and His Bride, part 1: the h…

Proper gutted for the turtle, right, the girl laughed at him? Why?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: girl · What happens: gut, laugh

This is test 9 · ★ 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

Sentence 1: Proper gutted for the turtle, right, the girl laughed at him?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Proper	properly	ADV	_	2 gutted	advmod
2	gutted	gut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
3	for	for	ADP	_	5 turtle	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 turtle	det
5	turtle	turtle	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 gutted	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 laughed	punct
7	right	right	INTJ	_	11 laughed	discourse
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 right	punct
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 girl	det
10	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 laughed	nsubj
11	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 gutted	conj
12	at	at	ADP	_	13 him	case
13	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 laughed	obl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 gutted	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	gut	participle						for the turtle; properly property	vn pit-10.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	laugh	past	the girl					at him = he	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «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.

Sentence 2: Why?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	root	root
2	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Why	punct

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

The options

Option 1

They were slow

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 slow	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 slow	cop
3	slow	slow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	They					slow property	tree rules

Option 2

They walked too slowly for her

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 walked	nsubj
2	walked	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	too	too	ADV	_	4 slowly	advmod
4	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	2 walked	advmod
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 her	case
6	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 walked	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	walk	past	They					for her = she; slowly property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

The army moved very slowly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 army	det
2	army	army	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 moved	nsubj
3	moved	move	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	very	very	ADV	_	5 slowly	advmod
5	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	3 moved	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	move	past	the army					slowly property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme

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

The turtles moved so slowly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 turtles	det
2	turtles	turtle	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 moved	nsubj
3	moved	move	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	so	so	ADV	_	5 slowly	advmod
5	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	3 moved	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	move	past	the turtles					slowly property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme 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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