Test 4 · ★ · Popular Tales, The Master Thief, part 18: the Priest is tr…

Fr, what did the geese do to the priest?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Fr, geese · What happens: do

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 1521 «Popular Tales, The Master Thief, part 18: the Priest is tricked into a sack and the Governor's horses are stolen» 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	Fr	fr	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 geese	det
6	geese	goose	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 do	nsubj
7	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 did	parataxis
8	to	to	ADP	_	10 priest	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 priest	det
10	priest	priest	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 do	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	Fr						vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	do	present	the geese					to the priest	vn act-114-1 «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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

bit him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 bit	obj

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

Option 2

hissed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hiss	participle							vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

pecked him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	pecked	peck	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 pecked	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	peck	past		him = he					vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient

Option 4

chased him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	chased	chase	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 chased	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chase	past		him = he					vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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