Test 12 · ★ · Catalan Folk-Tales, The Water of Life, part 2: the brother…

Lol, what did the hermit say right before he vanished?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: hermit · What happens: do, say, vanish · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 1644 «Catalan Folk-Tales, The Water of Life, part 2: the brothers climb the mountain and turn to stone» 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	Lol	lol	INTJ	_	4 did	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 hermit	det
6	hermit	hermit	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 say	nsubj
7	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 did	parataxis
8	right	right	ADV	_	11 vanished	advmod
9	before	before	SCONJ	_	11 vanished	mark
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 vanished	nsubj
11	vanished	vanish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 say	ccomp
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 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 hermit		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	vanish	past	hermit	right property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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

farewell, young man

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	farewell	farewell	INTJ	_	4 man	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 farewell	punct
3	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 man	amod
4	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

I must leave now

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 leave	nsubj
2	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 leave	aux
3	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 leave	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leave	must	I				now		vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

call on me and I will come

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	call	call	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	on	on	ADP	_	3 me	case
3	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	1 call	obl
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 come	cc
5	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 come	nsubj
6	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 come	aux
7	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 call	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	call	imperative	you not said here					on me	vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	come	future	I						vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

keep the knife safe always

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 knife	det
3	knife	knife	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 keep	obj
4	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 keep	xcomp
5	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	1 keep	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	imperative	you not said here	the knife				always, safe property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent knife=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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