Test 13 · ★ · Violet Fairy Book, Wali Dâd, part 58: gifts pile up, the o…

Who was weeping and yanking at his beard, then?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: weep, yank

This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 1257 «Violet Fairy Book, Wali Dâd, part 58: gifts pile up, the old man tries to drown himself, and two Peris appear» 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	Who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 weeping	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 weeping	aux
3	weeping	weep	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 yanking	cc
5	yanking	yank	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 weeping	conj
6	at	at	ADP	_	8 beard	case
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 beard	nmod:poss
8	beard	beard	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 yanking	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 then	punct
10	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 weeping	advmod
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 weeping	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	weep	past · progressive					then		vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	yank	gerund						at his beard	vn push-12-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent at beard=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

Wali Dâd

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Wali	Wali	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	Dâd	Dâd	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Wali	flat

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2

the merchant

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 merchant	det
2	merchant	merchant	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Wali Dâd, bawling his eyes out

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Wali	Wali	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	Dâd	Dâd	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Wali	flat
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 bawling	punct
4	bawling	bawl	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Wali	conj
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 eyes	nmod:poss
6	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 bawling	obj
7	out	out	ADV	_	4 bawling	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bawl out speech: other	gerund		Wali's eyes				out property	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Topic

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

the king, shaking his head sadly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 king	det
2	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 shaking	punct
4	shaking	shake	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 king	acl
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 head	nmod:poss
6	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 shaking	obj
7	sadly	sadly	ADV	_	4 shaking	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shake	gerund	the king not said here	king's head				sadly property	vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent head=Patient

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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