Test 10 · ★ · Indian Fairy Tales, Iya the Camp-Eater, part 10: the stole…

why'd the toad mom say the eldest is always best?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: toad mom, eldest · What happens: say, be · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1273 «Indian Fairy Tales, Iya the Camp-Eater, part 10: the stolen boy is found by his parents, and a wood-child is adopted by a chieftain» 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	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	6 say	advmod
2	'd	'd	PUNCT	_	6 say	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 mom	det
4	toad	toad	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 mom	compound
5	mom	mom	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 say	nsubj
6	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 eldest	det
8	eldest	eld	ADJ	Degree=Sup	11 best	nsubj
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 best	cop
10	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	11 best	advmod
11	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	6 say	ccomp
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 say	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	infinitive	the toad mom						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	the eldest					always, good property	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 · ← Mova's choice

To warn him about the river

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 warn	mark
2	warn	warn	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 warn	obj
4	about	about	ADP	_	6 river	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 river	det
6	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 warn	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	warn speech: warn	to-infinitive			him = he			about the river	vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP PP.topic»: agent=Agent he=Recipient about river=Topic

Option 2

To scare him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 scare	mark
2	scare	scare	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 scare	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	scare	to-infinitive		him = he					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus he=Experiencer

Option 3

To sleep

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 sleep	mark
2	sleep	sleep	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sleep	to-infinitive							vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

To quiet the boy for a while

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 quiet	mark
2	quiet	quiet	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 boy	det
4	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 quiet	obj
5	for	for	ADP	_	7 while	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 while	det
7	while	while	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 quiet	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	quiet	to-infinitive		the boy			while		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent boy=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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