Test 9 · ★ · Eastern Stories and Legends, Nur Mahomed, part 55: the old…

Wait, why did he wrap up the rest of his dinner?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, he · What happens: wait, wrap up · To what, where: rest

This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 1254 «Eastern Stories and Legends, Nur Mahomed, part 55: the old woman's foundling becomes a soldier, and a dog dies after a meal» 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 wrap	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	6 wrap	advmod
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 wrap	aux
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 wrap	nsubj
6	wrap	wrap	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Wait	parataxis
7	up	up	ADP	_	6 wrap	compound:prt
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 rest	det
9	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 wrap	obj
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 dinner	case
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 dinner	nmod:poss
12	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 rest	nmod
13	?	?	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	wrap up	past · do-support	he	the rest of his dinner					vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent rest=Theme

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

Because he was going to bury it so no one would find his food

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Because	because	SCONJ	_	4 going	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 going	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 going	aux
4	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 bury	mark
6	bury	bury	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 going	xcomp
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 bury	obj
8	so	so	SCONJ	_	12 find	mark
9	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	10 one	det
10	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 find	nsubj
11	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 find	aux
12	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 going	advcl
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 food	nmod:poss
14	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 find	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	go	past · progressive	he		vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	bury	to-infinitive	he not said here	it	vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
3	find	would	no one	his food	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Topic

Option 2

To feed the dog later on

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 feed	mark
2	feed	feed	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 dog	det
4	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 feed	iobj
5	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	2 feed	advmod
6	on	on	ADP	_	2 feed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	feed	to-infinitive			the dog			late property	vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dog=Recipient

Option 3

To give to the old woman

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 give	mark
2	give	give	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	6 woman	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 woman	det
5	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 woman	amod
6	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 give	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	to-infinitive			the old woman				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to woman=Recipient

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

To bury it somewhere safe

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 bury	mark
2	bury	bury	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 bury	obj
4	somewhere	somewhere	ADV	PronType=Ind	2 bury	advmod
5	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 bury	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bury	to-infinitive		it				safe, somewhere property	vn put-9.1-1 «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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