Test 6 · ★ · Norse Tales, The Voice of Death, part 1: a rich man flees…

so where was the husband when the voice got him again?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: husband, voice · What happens: be, get · To what, where: husband

This is test 6 · ★ 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	so	so	ADV	_	2 where	advmod
2	where	where	ADV	PronType=Int	root	root
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 where	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 husband	det
5	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 where	nsubj
6	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	9 got	advmod
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 voice	det
8	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 got	nsubj
9	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 where	advcl
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 got	obj
11	again	again	ADV	_	9 got	advmod
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 where	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the husband					where property	tree rules
2	get	past	the voice	husband			again		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus

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

buying bread at the baker's

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	buying	buy	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 buying	obj
3	at	at	ADP	_	5 baker	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 baker	det
5	baker	baker	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 buying	obl
6	's	's	PART	_	5 baker	case

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	buy	gerund		bread		the baker			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent bread=Theme at baker=Asset

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

at the barber's

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	at	at	ADP	_	3 barber	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 barber	det
3	barber	barber	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	's	's	PART	_	3 barber	case

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

Option 3

getting a trim at the tailor's

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	getting	get	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	root	root
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 trim	det
3	trim	trim	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 getting	obj
4	at	at	ADP	_	6 tailor	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 tailor	det
6	tailor	tailor	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 getting	obl
7	's	's	PART	_	6 tailor	case

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	gerund		a trim				at the tailor	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent trim=Theme at tailor=Asset

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

getting a shave at the barber's

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	getting	get	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	root	root
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 shave	det
3	shave	shave	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 getting	obj
4	at	at	ADP	_	6 barber	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 barber	det
6	barber	barber	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 getting	obl
7	's	's	PART	_	6 barber	case

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	gerund		a shave				at the barber	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent shave=Theme at barber=Asset

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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