Test 14 · ★ · Norse Tales, The Voice of Death, part 1: a rich man flees…

who did the wife say she was going to see first?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: wife · What happens: do, say, go, see · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 14 · ★ of lesson 1546 «Norse Tales, The Voice of Death, part 1: a rich man flees death, but the voice still finds his family» 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	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	2 did	nsubj
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 wife	det
4	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 say	nsubj
5	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 did	parataxis
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 going	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 going	aux
8	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 say	ccomp
9	to	to	PART	_	10 see	mark
10	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 going	xcomp
11	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	10 see	advmod
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	do	past			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert	present	the wife		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	go	past · progressive	wife		vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	see	to-infinitive	wife not said here	first property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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

the one calling for her, and then she would come back to him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 one	det
2	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 come	nsubj
3	calling	call	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 one	acl
4	for	for	ADP	_	5 her	case
5	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 calling	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 come	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 come	cc
8	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	11 come	advmod
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 come	nsubj
10	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 come	aux
11	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
12	back	back	ADV	_	11 come	advmod
13	to	to	ADP	_	14 him	case
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 come	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	call	gerund	the one not said here					for her = she	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient S_INF»: agent=Agent for she=Recipient
2	come back	would	the one		him = he		then		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to he=Initial_Location

Option 2

the barber in the shop

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 barber	det
2	barber	barber	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 shop	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 shop	det
5	shop	shop	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 barber	nmod

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

the one calling for her

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 one	det
2	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	calling	call	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 one	acl
4	for	for	ADP	_	5 her	case
5	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 calling	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	call	gerund	the one not said here					for her = she	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient S_INF»: agent=Agent for she=Recipient

Option 4

the one calling for her, who she had never met before in her life

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 one	det
2	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	calling	call	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 one	acl
4	for	for	ADP	_	5 her	case
5	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 calling	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 met	punct
7	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 met	nsubj
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 met	nsubj
9	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 met	aux
10	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	11 met	advmod
11	met	meet	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 one	acl:relcl
12	before	before	ADP	_	15 life	case
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 life	case
14	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 life	nmod:poss
15	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 met	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	call	gerund	the one not said here					for her = she	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient S_INF»: agent=Agent for she=Recipient
2	not meet	past · perfect	the one				before her life		vn meet-36.3-1 «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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