Test 13 · ★ · Norse Tales, The Old Man and the Trolls: three visits, thr…

test: what's the deal with the cow not calving?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: test, cow · What happens: be, not calve · To what, where: deal

This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 1638 «Norse Tales, The Old Man and the Trolls: three visits, three lost sacks, one lesson he never learns» 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	test	test	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 deal	nsubj
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	6 deal	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 deal	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 deal	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 deal	det
6	deal	deal	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	with	with	ADP	_	9 cow	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 cow	det
9	cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 deal	nmod
10	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 calving	advmod
11	calving	calve	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 cow	acl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 deal	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	test	the deal				with the cow	tree rules
2	not calve	gerund	the cow not said here						vn calve-28.1 «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

it was only a reason to go home

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 reason	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 reason	cop
3	only	only	ADV	_	5 reason	advmod
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 reason	det
5	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 go	mark
7	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 reason	acl
8	home	home	ADV	_	7 go	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	it	a reason					tree rules
2	go	to-infinitive						home property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

it was a lie to get home

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 lie	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 lie	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 lie	det
4	lie	lie	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 get	mark
6	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 lie	acl
7	home	home	ADV	_	6 get	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	it	a lie					tree rules
2	get	to-infinitive						home property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

Option 3

it was just an excuse he made up to run home quickly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 excuse	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 excuse	cop
3	just	just	ADV	_	5 excuse	advmod
4	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 excuse	det
5	excuse	excuse	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 made	nsubj
7	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 excuse	acl:relcl
8	up	up	ADP	_	7 made	compound:prt
9	to	to	PART	_	10 run	mark
10	run	run	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 made	xcomp
11	home	home	ADV	_	10 run	advmod
12	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	10 run	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	past	it	a excuse		tree rules
2	make up	past	he	a excuse not said here		tree rules
3	run	to-infinitive	a excuse not said here		home, quickly property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

it was just an excuse to run home

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 excuse	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 excuse	cop
3	just	just	ADV	_	5 excuse	advmod
4	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 excuse	det
5	excuse	excuse	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 run	mark
7	run	run	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 excuse	acl
8	home	home	ADV	_	7 run	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	it	a excuse					tree rules
2	run	to-infinitive						home property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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