Test 2 · ★ · Indian Fairy Tales, Iya the Camp-Eater, part 10: the stole…

bruh, what did the boy say he actually wanted to hear?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: boy · What happens: do, say, want, hear · To what, where: boy · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 2 · ★ 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	bruh	bruh	INTJ	_	4 did	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 say	ccomp
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 boy	det
6	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obj
7	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 wanted	nsubj
9	actually	actually	ADV	_	10 wanted	advmod
10	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 say	ccomp
11	to	to	PART	_	12 hear	mark
12	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 wanted	xcomp
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 say	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	do	past		the boy		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boy=Eventuality
2	say speech: assert	present				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	want	past	boy		actually property	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
4	hear not said to happen	to-infinitive	boy not said here			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer

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

Dakota lullabies

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Dakota	dakota	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 lullabies	compound
2	lullabies	lullaby	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

The woman's voice, the one he heard crying for him in the marsh every night

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 woman	det
2	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 voice	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 woman	case
4	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 heard	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 one	punct
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 one	det
7	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 voice	appos
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 heard	nsubj
9	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	crying	cry	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 heard	xcomp
11	for	for	ADP	_	12 him	case
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 crying	obl
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 marsh	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 marsh	det
15	marsh	marsh	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 crying	obl
16	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	17 night	det
17	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 heard	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hear	past	the woman's voice				night		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	cry speech: express	gerund	the woman's voice not said here			the marsh		for voice	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in marsh=Location

Option 3

The gruff voice of the old toad mother, singing the lullaby she always sang to him

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 voice	det
2	gruff	gruff	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 voice	amod
3	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 sang	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	8 mother	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 mother	det
6	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 mother	amod
7	toad	toad	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 mother	compound
8	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 voice	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 singing	punct
10	singing	sing	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 sang	advcl
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 lullaby	det
12	lullaby	lullaby	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 singing	obj
13	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 sang	nsubj
14	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	15 sang	advmod
15	sang	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	to	to	ADP	_	17 him	case
17	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 sang	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sing speech: express	gerund	the gruff voice of the old toad mother not said here	the lullaby					vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location lullaby=Theme
2	sing speech: express	past	the gruff voice of the old toad mother		him = he			always property	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

The woman's voice

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 woman	det
2	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 voice	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 woman	case
4	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

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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