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Test 5 · ★ · Myths and Legends of China, The Shinansha, or the South Po…

Sick, the old farmer cried, right? Why was he so happy?

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

This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 1349 «Myths and Legends of China, The Shinansha, or the South Pointing Carriage, part 9: Kotei beats the fog and crosses the river in boats made after a spider's leaf» 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

Sentence 1: Sick, the old farmer cried, right?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sick	sick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 cried	advcl
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Sick	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 farmer	det
4	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 farmer	amod
5	farmer	farmer	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 cried	nsubj
6	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 cried	punct
8	right	right	INTJ	_	6 cried	discourse
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 cried	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cry speech: express	past	the old farmer						vn manner_speaking-37.3 «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.

Sentence 2: Why was he so happy?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	5 happy	advmod
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 happy	cop
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 happy	nsubj
4	so	so	ADV	_	5 happy	advmod
5	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 happy	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	farmer					happy property	tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ✓ the right answer

his wife's death was finally avenged

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 wife	nmod:poss
2	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 death	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 wife	case
4	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 avenged	nsubj:pass
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 avenged	aux:pass
6	finally	finally	ADV	_	7 avenged	advmod
7	avenged	avenge	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	avenge	past · passive		his wife's death				finally property	tree rules
2	die		his wife						nom death «event intransitive»: poss=agent

Option 2

the badger was finally sent away

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 badger	det
2	badger	badger	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sent	nsubj:pass
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 sent	aux:pass
4	finally	finally	ADV	_	5 sent	advmod
5	sent	send	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	away	away	ADV	_	5 sent	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	send away	past · passive		the badger				away, finally property	vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

Option 3

the badger was gone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 badger	det
2	badger	badger	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 gone	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 gone	cop
4	gone	gone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the badger					gone property	tree rules

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

the fish were caught

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 fish	det
2	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 caught	nsubj:pass
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 caught	aux:pass
4	caught	catch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	catch	past · passive		the fish					vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

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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