Test 3 · ★ · Tales of Many Lands, The Six Sillies: a foolish family, th…

Be real, why'd the girl park herself on the cellar stairs?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, girl · What happens: be, park · To what, where: girl, cellar stairs

This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 1547 «Tales of Many Lands, The Six Sillies: a foolish family, three simpletons and a magic cloth» 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	Be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	2 real	cop
2	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 park	punct
4	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	8 park	advmod
5	'd	'd	PUNCT	_	8 park	punct
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 girl	det
7	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 park	nsubj
8	park	park	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 real	parataxis
9	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	8 park	obj
10	on	on	ADP	_	13 stairs	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 stairs	det
12	cellar	cellar	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 stairs	compound
13	stairs	stair	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 park	obl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 real	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	imperative	you not said here					real property	tree rules
2	park	infinitive	the girl	girl		the cellar stairs			vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent herself=Theme on stair=Destination

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

to read a big book

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	2 read	mark
2	read	read	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 book	det
4	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 book	amod
5	book	book	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 read	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	read	to-infinitive		a big book					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent book=Topic

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

to think up baby names

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	2 think	mark
2	think	think	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	up	up	ADP	_	2 think	compound:prt
4	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 names	compound
5	names	name	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 think	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think up speech: other	to-infinitive		baby names					vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot name=Theme

Option 3

to wait for her dad

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	2 wait	mark
2	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
3	for	for	ADP	_	5 dad	case
4	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 dad	nmod:poss
5	dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 wait	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	to-infinitive						for her dad	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

to cry alone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	2 cry	mark
2	cry	cry	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	alone	alone	ADV	_	2 cry	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cry speech: express	to-infinitive						alone property	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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