Test 13 · ★ · Eastern Tales, Fortune and the Wood-Cutter: a lazy man lie…

Mate, what did the bloke from the village want?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Mate · What happens: do, want · To what, where: bloke, village

This is test 13 · ★ 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	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 bloke	det
6	bloke	bloke	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obj
7	from	from	ADP	_	9 village	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 village	det
9	village	village	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 want	obl
10	want	want	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 did	ccomp
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	Mate	the bloke					tree rules
2	want	infinitive	Mate not said here			the village			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot

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 hire the donkey

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 hire	mark
2	hire	hire	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 donkey	det
4	donkey	donkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 hire	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hire	to-infinitive		the donkey					vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent donkey=Theme

Option 2

To ask the wood-cutter for help carrying his heavy sacks home

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 ask	mark
2	ask	ask	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 cutter	det
4	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 cutter	compound
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 wood	punct
6	cutter	cutter	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 ask	obj
7	for	for	ADP	_	8 help	case
8	help	help	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 ask	obl
9	carrying	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 help	acl
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 sacks	nmod:poss
11	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 sacks	amod
12	sacks	sack	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 carrying	obj
13	home	home	ADV	_	9 carrying	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	to-infinitive		the wood cutter				for help	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent cutter=Recipient
2	carry	gerund	help not said here	his heavy sacks				home property	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sack=Theme

Option 3

To borrow the mules for a trip to the city market

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 borrow	mark
2	borrow	borrow	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 mules	det
4	mules	mule	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 borrow	obj
5	for	for	ADP	_	7 trip	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 trip	det
7	trip	trip	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 borrow	obl
8	to	to	ADP	_	11 market	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 market	det
10	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 market	compound
11	market	market	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 borrow	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	borrow	to-infinitive		the mules				for a trip; to the city market	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mule=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

To borrow the mules

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 borrow	mark
2	borrow	borrow	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 mules	det
4	mules	mule	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 borrow	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	borrow	to-infinitive		the mules					vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mule=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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