Test 12 · ★ · Eastern Tales, Fortune and the Wood-Cutter: a lazy man lie…

How did the wife know it was late in the morning?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: wife, it · What happens: know, be · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 12 · ★ 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	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	5 know	advmod
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 know	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 wife	det
4	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 know	nsubj
5	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 late	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 late	cop
8	late	late	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 know	ccomp
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 morning	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 morning	det
11	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 late	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 know	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	know	past · do-support	the wife						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	is	past	it				morning	late property	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

Her husband had not got up from his bed yet

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 husband	nmod:poss
2	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 got	nsubj
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 got	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 got	advmod
5	got	get	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	up	up	ADV	_	5 got	advmod
7	from	from	ADP	_	9 bed	case
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 bed	nmod:poss
9	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 got	obl
10	yet	yet	ADV	_	5 got	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not get up	past · perfect	Her husband			husband's bed	yet		vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme from bed=Destination

Option 2

The bread had gone stale

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 bread	det
2	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 gone	nsubj
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 gone	aux
4	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	stale	stale	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 gone	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past · perfect	the bread					stale property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

The mules had come back

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 mules	det
2	mules	mule	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 come	nsubj
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 come	aux
4	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	back	back	ADV	_	4 come	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come back	past · perfect	the mules						vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

The cock had crowed ages ago

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 cock	det
2	cock	cock	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 crowed	nsubj:pass
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 crowed	aux
4	crowed	crow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	ages	age	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 crowed	obj
6	ago	ago	ADV	_	4 crowed	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	crow	past · perfect · passive		the cock				ago property	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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