Test 3 · ★ · Fairy Book, Toueno-Boueno, part 20: the boy tricks the far…

Did his ma really play dead or what?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · What happens: do, play · To what, where: ma

This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 1295 «Fairy Book, Toueno-Boueno, part 20: the boy tricks the farmers and sends them to their deaths in the river, and a new tale, The Brown Bear of Norway, begins» 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	Did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 ma	nmod:poss
3	ma	ma	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Did	obj
4	really	really	ADV	_	5 play	advmod
5	play	play	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Did	advcl
6	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 play	xcomp
7	or	or	CCONJ	_	8 what	cc
8	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 dead	conj
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past		his ma					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ma=Eventuality
2	play	present						dead property	vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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 · ✓ the right answer

she lay on the floor pretending

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 lay	nsubj
2	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	on	on	ADP	_	5 floor	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 floor	det
5	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 lay	obl
6	pretending	pretend	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 lay	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lie	past	she			the floor			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on floor=Location
2	pretend	gerund	she not said here						tree rules

Option 2

she just sat there

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 sat	nsubj
2	just	just	ADV	_	3 sat	advmod
3	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 sat	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit	past	she			there			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

she lay still in the kitchen

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 lay	nsubj
2	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	still	still	ADV	_	2 lay	advmod
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 kitchen	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 kitchen	det
6	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 lay	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lie	past	she			the kitchen	still		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in kitchen=Location

Option 4

she fainted by the stove

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 fainted	nsubj
2	fainted	faint	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	by	by	ADP	_	5 stove	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 stove	det
5	stove	stove	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 fainted	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	faint	past	she					by the stove	vn change_bodily_state-40.8.4 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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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