Test 4 · ★ · Eastern Tales, Fortune and the Wood-Cutter: a lazy man lie…

Bruv, how did the gold end up all over the yard?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: gold · What happens: do, end up

This is test 4 · ★ 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	Bruv	Bruv	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 did	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Bruv	punct
3	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	4 did	advmod
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 gold	det
6	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 end	nsubj
7	end	end	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 did	ccomp
8	up	up	ADP	_	7 end	compound:prt
9	all	all	ADV	_	12 yard	advmod
10	over	over	ADP	_	12 yard	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 yard	det
12	yard	yard	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 end	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past						Bruv vocative	tree rules
2	end up	present	the gold					over the yard	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient

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

The husband cut the sacks open quick

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 husband	det
2	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 cut	nsubj
3	cut	cut	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 sacks	det
5	sacks	sack	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 open	nsubj
6	open	open	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 cut	ccomp
7	quick	quick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 open	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cut	past	the husband						tree rules
2	open	present	the sacks					quick property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

The wife cut the cords and it poured out

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 wife	det
2	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 cut	nsubj
3	cut	cut	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 cords	det
5	cords	cord	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 cut	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 poured	cc
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 poured	nsubj
8	poured	pour	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 cut	conj
9	out	out	ADP	_	8 poured	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cut	past	the wife	the cords					vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cord=Product
2	pour out	past	it						vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Source

Option 3

The sacks split open in the stable

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 sacks	det
2	sacks	sack	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 split	nsubj
3	split	split	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 split	xcomp
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 stable	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 stable	det
7	stable	stable	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 split	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	split	past	the sacks			the stable		open property	vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 4

The mules tipped it

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	3 tipped	nsubj
3	tipped	tip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 tipped	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tip	past	the mules	it					vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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