Test 10 · ★ · Yellow Fairy Book, The Canary: three burnt geese, and a pi…

Mate, what did Désiré reckon was his fault?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Désiré, Mate · What happens: reckon, be · To what, where: Mate, fault

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1565 «Yellow Fairy Book, The Canary: three burnt geese, and a pin pulled from a bird» 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	Mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 fault	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 reckon	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 reckon	obj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 reckon	aux
5	Désiré	Désiré	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 reckon	nsubj
6	reckon	reckon	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Mate	conj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 fault	cop
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 fault	nmod:poss
9	fault	fault	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 fault	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	reckon	past · do-support	Désiré	Mate					vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent what=Attribute
2	is a	past	Mate	Désiré's fault					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

his horse's speed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 horse	nmod:poss
2	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 speed	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 horse	case
4	speed	speed	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

leaving her

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	leaving	leave	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 leaving	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leave	gerund		her = she					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

the spell, for leaving her alone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 spell	det
2	spell	spell	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 spell	punct
4	for	for	SCONJ	_	5 leaving	mark
5	leaving	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 spell	acl
6	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 leaving	obj
7	alone	alone	ADV	_	5 leaving	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leave	gerund	the spell not said here	her = she				alone property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme

Option 4

being too proud

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 proud	cop
2	too	too	ADV	_	3 proud	advmod
3	proud	proud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	gerund						proud property	tree rules

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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