Test 8 · ★ · Tales from Many Lands, The One-Handed Girl, part 1: after…

The wife's slave came for a pumpkin, was it free?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: slave · What happens: come, be

This is test 8 · ★ 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 wife	det
2	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 slave	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 wife	case
4	slave	slave	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 came	nsubj
5	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	for	for	ADP	_	8 pumpkin	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 pumpkin	det
8	pumpkin	pumpkin	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 came	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 free	punct
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 free	cop
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 free	nsubj
12	free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 came	conj
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 came	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	the wife's slave					for a pumpkin	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	past	slave					free 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

No, she paid

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 paid	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 paid	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 paid	nsubj
4	paid	pay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pay	past	she						vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 2

Paid

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Paid	pay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pay	participle							vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 3

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, a gift

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 gift	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 gift	punct
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 gift	det
4	gift	gift	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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