Test 4 · ★ · Norse Tales, The Master Thief, part 16: the youth steals a…

so why's he not kipping in the bed?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: he · What happens: not kip · To what, where: bed

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 1519 «Norse Tales, The Master Thief, part 16: the youth steals a man's ox with a shoe and a trick» 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	so	so	ADV	_	6 kipping	advmod
2	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	6 kipping	advmod
3	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 kipping	aux
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 kipping	nsubj
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 kipping	advmod
6	kipping	kip	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 bed	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 bed	det
9	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 kipping	obl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 kipping	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not kip	present · progressive	he			the bed			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

cos he's not tired

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cos	cos	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 tired	nsubj
3	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 tired	cop
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 tired	advmod
5	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 cos	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is	present	he	cos not said here				tired property	tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

cos he's too scared to shut his eyes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cos	cos	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 scared	nsubj
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 scared	nsubj
3	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 scared	cop
4	too	too	ADV	_	5 scared	advmod
5	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 shut	mark
7	shut	shut	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 scared	xcomp
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 eyes	nmod:poss
9	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 shut	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	cos					scared property	tree rules
2	shut	to-infinitive	cos not said here	his eyes					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent eye=Patient

Option 3

cos he's got no blanket to use

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cos	cos	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 got	nsubj
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 got	nsubj
3	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 got	aux
4	got	get	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	6 blanket	det
6	blanket	blanket	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 got	obj
7	to	to	PART	_	8 use	mark
8	use	use	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 got	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	present · passive	cos	no blanket					tree rules
2	use	to-infinitive	no blanket not said here						vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

cos someone's shouting outside him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cos	cos	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	1 cos	obj
3	's	's	PART	_	2 someone	case
4	shouting	shout	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 someone	acl
5	outside	outside	ADP	_	6 him	case
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 shouting	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cos	imperative	you not said here	someone					tree rules
2	shout speech: express	gerund						outside him = he	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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