Test 3 · ★ · Fairy Tales, Rübezahl, part 50: the gnome sees men settle…

wait, why'd he ditch the first farmer?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, he · What happens: wait, ditch · To what, where: first farmer

This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 1249 «Fairy Tales, Rübezahl, part 50: the gnome sees men settle his hills and serves three masters» 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	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 ditch	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	6 ditch	advmod
4	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 ditch	aux
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 ditch	nsubj
6	ditch	ditch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 wait	conj
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 farmer	det
8	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	9 farmer	amod
9	farmer	farmer	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 ditch	obj
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	ditch	would	he	the first farmer					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

bc the farm was boring af

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	bc	BC	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 farm	det
3	farm	farm	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 af	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 af	cop
5	boring	boring	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 af	amod
6	af	af	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 bc	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	the farm	boring af					tree rules

Option 2

he was lazy

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	3 lazy	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 lazy	cop
3	lazy	lazy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	he					lazy property	tree rules

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

cause the farmer was just mean

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cause	cause	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 farmer	det
3	farmer	farmer	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 mean	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 mean	aux
5	just	just	ADV	_	6 mean	advmod
6	mean	mean	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 cause	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cause	imperative	you not said here						tree rules
2	mean	past	the farmer						vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

cause the guy was wasteful and ungrateful

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cause	cause	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 guy	det
3	guy	guy	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 wasteful	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 wasteful	cop
5	wasteful	wasteful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 cause	ccomp
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 ungrateful	cc
7	ungrateful	ungrateful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 wasteful	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	cause	imperative	you not said here		vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition
2	is	past	the guy	wasteful property	tree rules
3	be		the guy not said here		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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