Test 1 · ★ · Eastern Tales, Fortune and the Wood-Cutter: a lazy man lie…

Mate, why did the wood-cutter stay in bed when he should've been up?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: Mate · What happens: do · To what, where: cutter stay, bed

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 1234 «Eastern Tales, Fortune and the Wood-Cutter: a lazy man lies in bed while his mules bring home gold» 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	Mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 did	advmod
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 stay	det
6	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 cutter	compound
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 wood	punct
8	cutter	cutter	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 stay	compound
9	stay	stay	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obj
10	in	in	ADP	_	11 bed	case
11	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 stay	nmod
12	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	14 should	advmod
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 should	nsubj
14	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 did	advcl
15	've	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	14 should	xcomp
16	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	17 up	cop
17	up	up	ADP	_	15 've	compound:prt
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	Mate	the cutter stay		bed			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stay=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

He figured the mules would bring the gold back to his stable by himself

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 figured	nsubj
2	figured	figure	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 mules	det
4	mules	mule	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 bring	nsubj
5	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 bring	aux
6	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 figured	ccomp
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 gold	det
8	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 bring	obj
9	back	back	ADV	_	6 bring	advmod
10	to	to	ADP	_	12 stable	case
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 stable	nmod:poss
12	stable	stable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 bring	obl
13	by	by	ADP	_	14 himself	case
14	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	12 stable	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	figure	past	He						tree rules
2	bring back	would	the mules	the gold		his stable			vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent gold=Theme to stable=Destination

Option 2

He wanted to rest more

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 rest	mark
4	rest	rest	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 wanted	xcomp
5	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	4 rest	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	rest not said to happen	to-infinitive	He not said here						vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

He reckoned Fortune would come to him

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 reckoned	nsubj
2	reckoned	reckon	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	Fortune	fortune	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 come	nsubj
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 come	aux
5	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 reckoned	ccomp
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 him	case
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 come	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	reckon	past	He						vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	come	would	Fortune		him = he				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to he=Initial_Location

Option 4

He thought the mules would wake him

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 thought	nsubj
2	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 mules	det
4	mules	mule	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 wake	nsubj
5	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 wake	aux
6	wake	wake	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 thought	ccomp
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 wake	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	He						vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	wake	would	the mules	him = he					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent he=Patient

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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