Test 13 · ★ · Tales from Many Lands, The One-Handed Girl, part 1: after…

Yo, where'd the dad lie when he was dying?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: dad · What happens: lie, die

This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 1308 «Tales from Many Lands, The One-Handed Girl, part 1: after the parents die, a sister's pot and pumpkins bring her luck until her envious brother steals the pot» 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	Yo	yo	INTJ	_	7 lie	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yo	punct
3	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	7 lie	advmod
4	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 lie	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 dad	det
6	dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 lie	nsubj
7	lie	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	when	when	SCONJ	_	11 dying	mark
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 dying	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 dying	aux
11	dying	die	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 lie	advcl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 lie	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lie	would	the dad						vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	die	past · progressive	dad						vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

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

On the floor

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	On	on	ADP	_	3 floor	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 floor	det
3	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

Lying on a bed of reeds beside his wife

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Lying	lie	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	on	on	ADP	_	4 bed	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 bed	det
4	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Lying	obl
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 reeds	case
6	reeds	reed	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 bed	nmod
7	beside	beside	ADP	_	9 wife	case
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 wife	nmod:poss
9	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Lying	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lie	gerund				a bed of reeds		beside his wife	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on bed=Location

Option 3

By the door

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	By	by	ADP	_	3 door	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 door	det
3	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

On the floor of the hut, near the fire

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	On	on	ADP	_	3 floor	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 floor	det
3	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 hut	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 hut	det
6	hut	hut	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 floor	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 fire	punct
8	near	near	ADP	_	10 fire	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 fire	det
10	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 floor	conj

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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