Test 7 · ★ · Blue Fairy Book, Goldenhair, part 1: a prince wins a bride…

What was the big warning the old woman kept going on about?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: old woman, big warning · What happens: be, keep, go on · To what, where: big warning

This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 1454 «Blue Fairy Book, Goldenhair, part 1: a prince wins a bride, then three maidens and a raven's message» 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 warning	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 warning	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 warning	det
4	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 warning	amod
5	warning	warning	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 woman	det
7	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 woman	amod
8	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 kept	nsubj
9	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 warning	acl:relcl
10	going	go	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 kept	xcomp
11	on	on	ADP	_	10 going	compound:prt
12	about	about	ADV	_	10 going	advmod
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 warning	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the big warning		tree rules
2	keep	past	the old woman	the big warning not said here		tree rules
3	go on	gerund	the big warning not said here		about property	vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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

Don't go past the gate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 go	aux
2	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	3 go	advmod
3	go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	past	past	ADP	_	6 gate	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 gate	det
6	gate	gate	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 go	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not go	imperative · do-support	you not said here			the gate			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme past gate=Initial_Location

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Don't talk to a bloke

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 talk	aux
2	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	3 talk	advmod
3	talk	talk	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 bloke	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 bloke	det
6	bloke	bloke	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 talk	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not talk	imperative · do-support	you not said here					to a bloke	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to bloke=Co-Agent

Option 3

Don't go out

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 go	aux
2	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	3 go	advmod
3	go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	out	out	ADV	_	3 go	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not go out	imperative · do-support	you not said here					out property	vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Stay in, mate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Stay	stay	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	in	in	ADV	_	1 Stay	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 mate	punct
4	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Stay	vocative

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stay in	imperative	you not said here					mate vocative	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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