Test 11 · ★ · Gutenberg 3282, The Sister of the Sun, part 38: the boy st…

bruh, why did the boy keep going back to the palace?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: do, keep, go back · To what, where: boy

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 1237 «Gutenberg 3282, The Sister of the Sun, part 38: the boy steals a golden hen, but keeps going back into the palace, and the fox rescues the princess from the giants» 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	bruh	bruh	INTJ	_	4 did	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 did	advmod
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 keep	advcl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 boy	det
6	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obj
7	keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	going	go	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 keep	xcomp
9	back	back	ADV	_	8 going	advmod
10	to	to	ADP	_	12 palace	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 palace	det
12	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 going	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 keep	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	other	roles by
1	do	past	the boy		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boy=Eventuality
2	keep	present			tree rules
3	go back	gerund		to the palace result	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to palace=Result

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

he forgot his hat

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 forgot	nsubj
2	forgot	forget	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 hat	nmod:poss
4	hat	hat	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 forgot	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	forget	past	he	his hat					tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

he kept getting distracted by the pretty stuff

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 kept	nsubj
2	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	getting	get	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 kept	xcomp
4	distracted	distract	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 getting	xcomp
5	by	by	ADP	_	8 stuff	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 stuff	det
7	pretty	pretty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 stuff	amod
8	stuff	stuff	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 distracted	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	keep	past	he		tree rules
2	get	gerund	he not said here		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	distract	participle	he not said here	by the pretty stuff	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

Option 3

he kept hoping to find the golden hen again

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 kept	nsubj
2	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	hoping	hope	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 kept	xcomp
4	to	to	PART	_	5 find	mark
5	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 hoping	xcomp
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 hen	det
7	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 hen	amod
8	hen	hen	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 find	obj
9	again	again	ADV	_	5 find	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	keep	past	he			tree rules
2	hope	gerund	he not said here			vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3	find not said to happen	to-infinitive	he not said here	the golden hen	again	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hen=Topic

Option 4

he wanted more gold

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	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	4 gold	advmod
4	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 wanted	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	he	gold					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot gold=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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